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People should be more concerned with the return of their principal than the return on their principal.
If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week
How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?
Hundreds and hundreds of beautiful horses in the parade and a man without a silver saddle is a vagrant.
Will Rogers used to say he wouldn't run for president no matter how badly the country needed a comedian.
Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.
Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.
One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.
The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.
The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.
There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.
If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.
Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more.
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
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.
I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.
Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.
When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.
Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.
So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you give!
It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.
Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.
If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry.
I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.
I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.
Prosperity this Winter is going to be enjoyed by everybody that is fortunate enough to get into the poor farm.
Don't just grab at the first thing that comes along. Know when to refuse something that won't get you anywhere
I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.
Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline.
Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.
There is some talk of lowering (the income tax), and they will have to. People are not making enough to pay it.
The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.
We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.
If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.
Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach
There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.
Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.
Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.