"I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."

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Source : First Inaugural Speech as Governor of Alabama, January 1963.

George C. Wallace

#Dust Quotes #Tyrants Quotes #Feet Quotes

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
“We've spent too much on how to destroy and blow up things with the military and too little on our health care, and too little on education, and it goes on.”

Source : Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.
“Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.”
“There have been times when the Federal Reserve has restricted the money supply and raised interest rates to gain an end, which had much better been left to another Government agency or the Congress to attain. The country could have had lower interest rates without sacrificing anything else.”
“Being satisfied with the status quo means you are not making progress”
“However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.”
“Adversity is an effective, thorough and highly personalized teacher.”
“The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy. We manufacture stories, after all, from the fleeting sensory material that bombards us at every instant, a fragmented series of pictures, conversations, odors, and the touch of things and people. We delete most of it to live with some semblance of order, and the reshuffling of memory goes on until we die.”

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