This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Quote by Will Rogers

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If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there...

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there...

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with...

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with...

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be...

You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be...

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

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

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people

Always drink upstream from the herd.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give...

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give...

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if...

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if...

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out...

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out...

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way...

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way...

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for...

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for...

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on...

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on...

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to...

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to...

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported...

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported...

I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our...

I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our...

Faults of ignorance are excusable only where the ignorance itself is so

Faults of ignorance are excusable only where the ignorance itself is so