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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

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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.

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.

Gubernatorial campaign promise (1962)

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

I stand here today, as Governor of this sovereign state, and refuse to willingly submit to illegal usurpation of power by the Central Government.

I was wrong. Those days are over, and they ought to be over.

Speech (1979)

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