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Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn (January 6, 1882 November 16, 1961) was a United States politician from Texas. He served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives for 17 years, and he is widely regarded as the most effective Speaker of the House in American history. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your own bio in the forums. Explore books and films about Rayburn, Sam.

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

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"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."

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"If you want to get along, go along."

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

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

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"In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is wise enough to select a man of energy, intelligence, and integrity and reelects him year after year. A man of this type and character serves more efficiently and effectively the longer he is returned by his people. "

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"Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If you want to get along, go along. "

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

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

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"It has always been my ambition since childhood to live such a life that one day my fellow citizens would call me to membership in this popular branch of the greatest lawmaking body in the world. Out of their confidence and partiality they have done this. It is now my sole purpose here to help enact such wise and just laws that our common country will by virtue of these laws be a happier and a more prosperous country. I have always dreamed of a country which I believe this should be and will be, and that is one in which the citizenship is an educated and patriotic people, not swayed by passion and prejudice, and a country that shall know no East, no West, no North, no South, but inhabited by a people liberty loving, patriotic, happy, and prosperous, with its lawmakers having no other purpose than to write such just laws as shall in the years to come be of service to human kind yet unborn. [Applause]"

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"Youll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you dont have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said. "

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