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

— George Wallace

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More quotes by George Wallace

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)

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)

If I can't forgive him, the Lord won’t forgive me.

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