A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
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A fool and his money are soon elected.
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A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
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A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
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Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
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All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
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America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
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America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
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An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
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An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
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Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
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Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
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Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
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Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
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Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
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Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there.
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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.
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Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
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I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
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I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
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I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
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I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
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I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
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If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
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If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
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If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
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If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
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If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
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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.
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It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
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It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
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Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
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Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.
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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
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Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
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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.
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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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One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
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One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
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People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
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People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
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So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
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Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
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The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
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The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.
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The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
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The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
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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.
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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
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The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
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The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
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There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
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There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
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Things ain't what they used to be and never were.
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Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
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This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
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What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
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When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
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Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
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