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

Quote by Sam Rayburn

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

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

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

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

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

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

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

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

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

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have...

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I like power and I like to use it.

I like power and I like to use it.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our...

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our...

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a...

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a...

E-commerce businesses, even e-commerce specialists, have yet to realize that the WWW is first and...

E-commerce businesses, even e-commerce specialists, have yet to realize that the WWW is first and...

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but...

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but...

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have...

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have...

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all...

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all...

Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or...

Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or...