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All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself. -- Will Rogers

Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to. -- Will Rogers

The United States investigates everything -- usually after it's dead. -- Will Rogers

We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get more for not working than you will for working, and more for not raising a hog than for raising it. -- Will Rogers

This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read. -- Will Rogers

Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury! -- Will Rogers

I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you. -- Will Rogers

If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives. -- Will Rogers

A Country can get more real joy out of just Hollering for their Freedom than they can if they get it. -- Will Rogers

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. -- Will Rogers

I bet you, if I had met Trotsky, and had had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I have never yet met a man I didn't like. -- Will Rogers

America has a very unique record. We never lost a war or won a conference... -- Will Rogers

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom. -- Will Rogers

There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness. -- Will Rogers

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers

Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week. -- Will Rogers

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln. -- Will Rogers

We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it. -- Will Rogers

If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone, 'America died from a delusion that she has moral leadership'. -- Will Rogers

It sure did kick up some excitement in the Senate when one Senator called the other Senators 'sons of Wild jackasses.' Well, if you thought it made the Senators hot, you wait till you see what happens when the jackasses hear how they have been slandered. -- Will Rogers

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. -- Will Rogers

I'm not a member of any organized political party. I'm a Democrat. -- Will Rogers

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? -- Will Rogers

A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief. -- Will Rogers

Elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with Public Officials. -- Will Rogers

Tomorrow is Labor Day, I suppose set by Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew anything about Labor is beyond us. -- Will Rogers

Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous. -- Will Rogers

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. -- Will Rogers

That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury. -- Will Rogers

Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off. -- Will Rogers

This thing about getting rid of a man in the Cabinet is all right, but there is one bad feature to it that few people realize. That is, that unfortunately every one of them is replaced by someone else. If it wasn't for that, this resignation business would be great. -- Will Rogers

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. -- Will Rogers

There is good news from Washington today. The Congress is deadlocked and can't act. -- Will Rogers

Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it. -- Will Rogers

You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone. -- Will Rogers

If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. -- Will Rogers

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. -- Will Rogers

Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest business institution in the world, and they got only one Vice-President and nobody has ever found anything for him to do. -- Will Rogers

You see, in Washington they have these bodies, Senate and the House of Representatives. That is for the convenience of the visitors. If there is nothing funny happening in one, there is sure to be in the other, and in case one body passes a good bill, why, the other can see it in time and kill it. -- Will Rogers

I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother. -- Will Rogers

Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy until you can find a rock. -- Will Rogers

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. -- Will Rogers

You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets. -- Will Rogers

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers

Income taxes have made more liars out of the American people than golf. -- Will Rogers

How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich -- or just out of the poor, as usual? -- Will Rogers

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the�Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the�smartest race of people on earth! -- Will Rogers

If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time. -- Will Rogers

Farmers, get out your sense of humor! Congress meets to relieve you again next week. -- Will Rogers

I don't make jokes -- I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Will Rogers

Things in our country run in spite of the government, not by the aid of it. -- Will Rogers

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. -- Will Rogers

One of these days they are going to remove so much of the 'hooey' and the thousands of things the schools have become clogged up with, and we will find that we can educate our broods for about one-tenth of the price and learn 'em something that they might accidentally use after they escape. -- Will Rogers

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. -- Will Rogers

Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work. -- Felix Rohatyn

Since I am an immature and wicked man, war and unrest appeal to me more than good bourgeois order. Brutality is respected, the people need wholesome fear. They want to fear someone. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive. -- Ernst Rohm

The relative openness or closedness of a mind cuts across specific content; that is, it is not restricted to any one particular ideology, or religion, or philosophy, or scientific viewpoint. -- Milton Rokeach

O liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name! -- Madame Jeanne-Marie Roland

The test for whether one is living in a police state is that those who are charged with enforcing the law are allowed to break the laws with impunity. -- Jon Roland

We make money the old fashioned way. We print it. -- Art Rolnick

I am convinced that we can do to guns what we've done to drugs: create a multi-billion dollar underground market over which we have absolutely no control. -- George L. Roman

Felix qui nihil debet. (Happy is he who owes nothing.) -- Roman Proverb

Give me control over a man's economic actions, and hence over his means of survival, and except for a few occasional heroes, I'll promise to deliver to you men who think and write and behave as I want them to. -- Benjamin A. Rooge

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

We do not move forward by curtailing people’s liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie or Mr. Hiss, who are the two people whom I happen to know fairly well, would not need any denial on their part to know they are not Communists. Their records prove it. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops, and go right straight back to the old principle that every farmer is a lord of his own farm and can do anything he wants, raise anything, any old time, in any quantity, and sell any time he wants? -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind -- men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others -- men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance, we must provide a safe place for their perception. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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