19 Quotes by Will Rogers about america


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    You would be surprised what there is to see in this great country within 200 miles of where any of us live. I don’t care what State or what town.

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    About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.

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    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.

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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.

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