Sam Rayburn Quotes

"Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time."
- Sam Rayburn
(Related: Time, Son, Truth)

"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."
- Sam Rayburn
(Related: Truth, Forget)

"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too."
- Sam Rayburn
(Related: Leader, People)

"When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'"
- Sam Rayburn
(Related: Majority, Trouble)

"Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions."
- Sam Rayburn
(Related: Mistake, Congress, Decisions)

"The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart."
- Sam Rayburn
(Related: Heart, Actor)

"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut."
- Sam Rayburn
(Related: Language)

"If you want to get along, go along."
- Sam Rayburn
(Related: Want)

"If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is."
- Sam Rayburn
(Related: Common sense, Man)

"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations."
- Sam Rayburn
(Related: Action, Circumstances)

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

"A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice."
- Sam Rayburn

"I like power and I like to use it."
- Sam Rayburn
(Related: Power)