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.
Private conversation quoted in W. B. Ragsdale, “An Old Friend Writes of Rayburn,” U.S. News & World Report (23 Oct 1961)
A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
Quoted in Dulaney and Phillips, Speak, Mister Speaker (1978)
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