Quotes By Sam Rayburn

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

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

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.

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

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

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

If you want to get along, go along.

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

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

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

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

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

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