Famous Quotes / Sam Rayburn
11 Quotations by Sam Rayburn
- 1. [To a first-term congressman who wanted wanted excused from voting with the party to satisfy his big ...
- 2. Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
- 3. If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
- 4. If you want to get along, go along.
- 5. No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
- 6. Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
- 7. The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
- 8. They may be just as intelligent as you say. But I'd feel a helluva lot better if just one of them ha ...
- 9. When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
- 10. You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
- 11. You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you hav ...