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“Always drink upstream from the herd.”

The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers (2001)

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”

Daily Telegram #1172, Will Rogers Sees No Value In All The Time We Save (28 April 1930)
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“An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.”

As quoted in You Must Remember This (1975) by Walter Wagner, p. 175
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“Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.”

As quoted in The Quotable Will Rogers (2006) by Joseph H. Carter
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“I am not a member of any organized party — I am a Democrat.”

Variants: I don't belong to an organized political party. I'm a Democrat.
I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
Source: Will Rogers, Ambassador of Good Will, Prince of Wit and Wisdom (1935), Ch. 9 "Rogers was a lifelong Democrat but he studiously avoided partisanship. He contributed to the Democratic campaign funds, but at the same time he frequently appeared on benefit programs to raise money for the Republican treasury. Republican leaders sought his counsel in their campaigns as often as did the Democrats." ~ P. J. O'Brien

“Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.”

As quoted in The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations (1998) by Connie Robertson
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“There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.”

As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 524
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“What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.”

As quoted in Creative Leadership : Mining the Gold in Your Workforce (1998) by A. S. Migs Damiani, p. 168
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“Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.”

As quoted in Land in America : Its Value, Use, and Control (1981) by Peter M. Wolf, p. 6
Unsourced variant: Buy land, they aren't making any more of it.
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