37 Quotes by George Wallace

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    It's what the people wanted at the time, but the country could not be half-segregated and half-integrated, just as it could not be half-slave and half-free back in the 1800s.

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    Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.

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    It seems that other parts of the world ought to be concerned about what we think of them instead of what they think of us. After all, we're feeding most of them, and whenever they start rejecting 25 cents of each dollar of foreign aid money that we send to them, then I'll be concerned about their attitude toward us.

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    I don't support white supremacy. I'm the one who made them take 'white supremacy' off the roster that was the symbol of the Democratic Party in this state.

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    The court today, just as in 1776, is deaf to the voices of the people and their repeated entreaties: they have become arrogant, contemptuous, highhanded, and literal despots.

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    Blacks gave me a standing ovation when they put the cap and gown on me, and that was the proudest I've ever been.

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    I've never said that you should have segregation of the school system or any other.

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    The average citizen in this county has more intelligence and sense in his little finger than the editor of 'The New York Times' has in his whole head.

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