Sam Rayburn Quotes

• These…society women never serve chilli.

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• I like to make running water walk.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• Leadership must be established from the top down.

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

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• I like power and I like to use it.

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Sam Rayburn (16)

Birth:	6th January, 1882
Death:	16th November, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

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