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William Penn Adair „Will“ Rogers war ein US-amerikanischer Komiker, Schauspieler, Autor sowie Cowboy. Von den späten 1910er-Jahren bis zu seinem Tod gehörte Rogers zu Amerikas beliebtesten und bestbezahlten Entertainern. Mit seinen Bühnen-, Radio- und Filmauftritten sowie seinen Zeitungskolumnen deckte er ein breites künstlerisches Feld ab und erreichte ein Millionenpublikum. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. November 1879 – 15. August 1935
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„Man kann nicht sagen, daß die Zivilisation keine Fortschritte macht. In jedem Krieg töten sie einen auf neue Art.“

New York Times, 23. Dezember 1929
Original engl.: "You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way."

„Alles ist lustig, solange es jemand Anderem passiert.“

Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince"
Original engl.: "Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else."

„Jeder ist ein Ignorant, nur bei unterschiedlichen Themen.“

New York Times, 31. August 1924
Original engl.: "You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."

„Kommunismus ist wie Prohibition - eine gute Idee, aber es funktioniert nicht.“

Weekly Articles (1981), erstmals veröffentlicht 1927
Original engl.: "Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work."

„Ich mache keine Witze. Ich beobachte nur die Regierung und berichte Tatsachen.“

Saturday Review, 25. August 1962
Original engl.: "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."

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“The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.”

"Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes" <!-- p. 72 -->
The Illiterate Digest (1924)
Kontext: The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make one out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a Crook or a Martyr.

“You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.”

The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949)
Variante: You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

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

Daily Telegram number 2615, Mr. Rogers Finds the Wars At Home and Afar Alike (23 December 1934) in The New York Times, 24 December 1934 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F02E2DB173CEE32A25757C2A9649D946594D6CF
Daily telegrams

“The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.”

As quoted in The Image : A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1963) by Daniel Joseph Boorstein
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“There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I don't even have to exaggerate.”

As quoted in Saturday Review (25 August 1962)
Will Rogers, Ambassador of Good Will, Prince of Wit and Wisdom (1935)
Variante: People often ask me, 'Will, where do you get your jokes?' I just tell 'em, 'Well, I watch the government and report the facts, that is all I do, and I don't even find it necessary to exaggerate.
Variante: I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

“Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.”

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The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949)

“Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?”

As quoted in Dreams Come Due : Government and Economics as If Freedom Mattered (1986) by John Galt, p. 235
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“The United States never lost a war or won a conference.”

Remark after the Versailles Peace Conference, as quoted in Wit and Wisdom (1936) edited by Jack Lait
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“No party is as bad as its state and national leaders.”

"I Accept the Nomination", Life magazine, 31 May 1928 http://books.google.com/books?id=zuINAAAAIAAJ&q=%22No+party+is+as+bad+as+its+state+and+national+leaders%22&pg=PA8#v=onepage
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“Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.”

As quoted in Wit (2003) by Des MacHale, p. 299
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“There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.”

Quelle: The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949), Ch. 6

“The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.”

As quoted in The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958) by Herbert Victor Prochnow, p. 190
As quoted in ...
Variante: The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

“Our constitution protects aliens, drunks, and U. S. Senators. There ought to be one day (just one) when there is open season on senators.”

Daily Telegram number 2678, Mr. Rogers Takes Notice Of The Senatorial Storm (6 March 1935)
Daily telegrams

“This would be a great world to dance in if we didn't have to pay the fiddler.”

Daily Telegram #1224, Rogers Offers His Version Of The Economic Situation (27 June 1930)
Daily telegrams

“I certainly know that [A] comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious and I don't want either of those to happen to me til I am dead”

if then
Daily Telegram #1538, The First Good News of the 1928 Campaign! Mr. Rogers Says He Will Not Run For Anything (28 June 1931) <ref name=telegram3>
Daily telegrams

“We are the first nation to starve to death in a storehouse that's overfilled with everything we want.”

Daily Telegram #1355, The First Good News of the 1928 Campaign! Mr. Rogers Says He Will Not Run For Anything (26 November 1930)
Daily telegrams

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