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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 268
AUTHOR: Sam Rayburn (1882–1961)
QUOTATION: A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
ATTRIBUTION: Representative SAM RAYBURN, during filmed conversation with reporters, c. 1953.—“Speak, Mister Speaker,” p. 138 (1978).
SUBJECTS: Congress
 


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