29 Quotes by Will Rogers about Running

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    Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm.

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    The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.

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    You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

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    If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.

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    Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.

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    In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.

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    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.

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    Legalize racing in every State. Sure people will bet, but they get to see the horses run and you certain can't see General Motors and General Electric and General Utility run when you bet on them.

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    I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men that would -make my wife a better husband than I am but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em

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