Author Profile
George Wallace
1919 – 1998 • American • Politician
33
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 33 quotesI 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.— George Wallace
I don't expect people to forget my brash words or deeds. But I ask that they try to remember the actions that I took that were designed to help them.— George Wallace
My vehemence was against the federal courts. I never said a word against black people in my heart since I ran for governor.— George Wallace
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.— George Wallace
My one wish before I die is to talk to Bremer. I want to find out who he did it for. He did it for somebody else.— George Wallace
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.— George Wallace
Blacks gave me a standing ovation when they put the cap and gown on me, and that was the proudest I've ever been.— George Wallace
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.— George Wallace
As I have said before, that Federal Penal Code could never have been enacted into law if we had had a responsible press who was willing to tell the American people the truth about what it actually provides. Nor would we have had a bill had it not been for the United States Supreme Court.— George Wallace
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?— 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
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 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