Sam Rayburn Quotes

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

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

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#3. There's no education in the second kick of a mule

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

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

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

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

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

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#9. Let the other fellow get the headlines. I'll take the laws.

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#10. Any man who will cheat for you will cheat against you.

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#11. Any jackass can kick down a barn. It takes a carpenter to build on.

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#12. Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.

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#13. 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 sheriff.

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

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

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#16. Don't ever talk until you know what you are talking about.

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#17. 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.

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

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#19. There are no degrees in honorableness. You either are or you aren't.

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#20. 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.

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#21. 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, go along.

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#22. If you want to get along, go along.

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#23. Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

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#24. I like power and I like to use it.

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