Quotes by Sam Rayburn

• Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
• Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
• 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.
• You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
• When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
• Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
• The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
• No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
• If you want to get along, go along.
• If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
• A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
• A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
• I like power and I like to use it.