17 Quotes by Will Rogers about country


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    If you have a radio, the next three months is a good time to have it quit working. All you will hear from now until the 4th of November will be: 'We must get our government out of the hands of predatory wealth.' 'The good people of this great country are burdened to death with taxes. Now what I intend to do is ...' What he intends to do is try and get elected. That's all any of them intend to do. Another one that will hum over the old static every night will be: 'This country has reached a crisis in its national existence.'

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    The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds.

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    There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs

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    The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises or lowers the amount of interest. Any business that can't survive a one percent change must be skating on thin ice. Why even the poor farmer took a raise of another ten percent just to get a loan from the bank, and nobody from the government paid any attention. But you let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help to get them back into bed again.

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    There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank.

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    If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled

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    Politics ain't worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space

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    Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.

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