Words matter. These are the best George Wallace Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
When I first ran for governor… I had to stand up for segregation or be defeated, but I never insulted black people by calling them inferior.
I am going to give the moral support of the presidency to the police and firemen.
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.
They’re building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.
It’s a sad day in this country when you can’t talk about law and order unless they want to call you a racist.
Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone’s here.
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.
We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fantasy telling us we are bigots, racists and hate-mongers.
After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
It’s good that segregation is over.
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we’ve been bombing over the years been complaining?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’ve seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I’ve seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.
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.
I did nothing worse than Lyndon Johnson. He was for segregation when he thought he had to be. I was for segregation, and I was wrong. The media has rehabilitated Johnson; why won’t it rehabilitate me?
Blacks gave me a standing ovation when they put the cap and gown on me, and that was the proudest I’ve ever been.
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.
I’ve never said that you should have segregation of the school system or any other.
Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us, and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South.
Tell the people… please, tell the people of Alabama that I love them. Tell them I’m suffering a lot, but I love them.
I love black people, I love white people, I love yellow people.
