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If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.
George Wallace
I was wrong. Those days are over, and they ought to be over.
George Wallace
If I can't forgive him, the Lord won't forgive me.
George Wallace
I tried to talk about good roads and good schools and all these things that have been part of my career, and nobody listened. And then I began talking about niggers, and they stomped the floor.
George Wallace
We shall continue to maintain segregation in Alabama completely and absolutely without violence or ill-will. ... I advocate hatred of no man, because hate will only compound the problems facing the South. ... We ask for patience and tolerance and make an earnest request that we be allowed to handle state and local affairs without outside interference.
George Wallace
There is no need for him to call on me. I am not about to be a party to anything having to do with the law that is going to destroy individual freedom and liberty in this country. I am having nothing to do with enforcing a law that will destroy our free enterprise system. I am having nothing to do with enforcing a law that will destroy neighborhood schools. I am having nothing to do with enforcing a law that will destroy the rights of private property. I am having nothing to do with enforcing a law that destroys your right --and my right -- to choose my neighbors -- or to sell my house to whomever I choose. I am having nothing to do with enforcing a law that destroys the labor seniority system. I am having nothing to do with this so-called civil rights bill. The liberal left-wingers have passed it. Now let them employ some pinknik social engineers in Washington, D. C., to figure out what to do with it.
George Wallace
It is very appropriate that from this cradle of the Confederacy, this very heart of the great Anglo-Saxon Southland, that today we sound the drum for freedom as have our generations of forebears before us time and again down through history. Let us rise to the call for freedom-loving blood that is in us and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South. In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever.
George Wallace
I have learned what suffering means. In a way that was impossible, I think I can understand something of the pain black people have come to endure. I know I contributed to that pain, and I can only ask your forgiveness.
George Wallace
The unwelcomed, unwanted, unwarranted, and force-induced intrusion upon the campus of the University of Alabama today of the might of the central government offers frightful example of the oppression of the rights, privileges and sovereignty of this state by officers of the federal government.
George Wallace
I am a conservative. I intend to give the American people a clear choice. I welcome a fight between our philosophy and the liberal left-wing dogma which now threatens to engulf every man, woman, and child in the United States. I am in this race because I believe the American people have been pushed around long enough and that they, like you and I, are fed up with the continuing trend toward a socialist state which now subjects the individual to the dictates of an all-powerful central government.
George Wallace
I want to tell the good people of this state as a judge of the 3rd Judicial Circuit, if I didn't have what it took to treat a man fair regardless of his color, then I don't have what it takes to be the governor of your great state.
George Wallace
As your governor, I shall resist any illegal federal court order, even to the point of standing at the schoolhouse door in person, if necessary.
George Wallace
I was young and brash.
George Wallace
You've got some folks out here who know a lot of four letter words. But there are two four-letter words they don't know. W-O-R-K and S-O-A-P, you don't know those two letter words I'll tell you that much.
George Wallace
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.
George Wallace
They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.
George Wallace
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.
George Wallace
I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.
George Wallace
After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
George Wallace
Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.
George Wallace
Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!
George Wallace
I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.
George Wallace