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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.

Lyndon B. Johnson

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Learning Talk Yourself
Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Democracy Politics
It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Believe Leadership Price Time
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Break Destroy Different Justice Man Powerful Prison Vote
All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Creation Empty Equality Inspirational Man Motivational Theory Word
Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Enemy Friendship Hug Yourself
No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Human Kind Man Nation Race Rule Space
Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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Easy Inspirational Justice Liberty Life Truth
In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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See Strength Way
Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Achievement Ambition Comfortable Creation Future Men Present Purpose Reality Satisfaction Time
It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Ability Bad People Talent Waste
Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Funny Man Smart Time Wasted Time
As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Funny Himself Men Stars Togetherness
There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Human Issues Right Struggle
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Funny Happiness Herself Inspirational Learning Life Myself Thinking Wife
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Education Justice Men Opportunity Race Skin

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