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Sam Rayburn
January 6, 1882 - November 16, 1961
Nationality: American
Category: Politician
Subcategory: American Politician

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

   

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 what you have said.

   

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

   

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

   

A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

   

If you want to get along, go along.

   

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

   

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

   

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

   

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

   

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'

   

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

   

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

   

I like power and I like to use it.

   

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