Sam Rayburn Quotes

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• The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
• No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
• Son, if you can't take their money, drink their whiskey, screw their women, and then vote against 'em, you don't deserve to be here.
• You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget…
• I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not…
• I like power and I like to use it.
• Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.
• If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
• A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
• In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is…
• Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If you want to get along,…
• Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
• If you want to get along, go along.
• When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.
• When the concept of Social Security came before the House, every Republican but one voted against it. Had it not been for the Democrats, Social…
• They may be just as intelligent as you say. But I'd feel a helluva lot better if just one of them had ever run for…
• Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
• You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
• A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
• Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

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