What are some quotes by Sam Rayburn?

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

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

• I like power and I like to use it.

• I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.

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

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

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

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