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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Death Kind Myself Nation Vision
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
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Endurance Genius Ourselves Politics Principles Rich
Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Agreement Feeling Liberty Right Thinking
When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Government Myself Worst
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Man Night Right
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 poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Angry Destruction Hands Oneself Poor Suffering
Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Better Friendship Himself
There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Fast Responsibility Trouble
Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Enemy Friendship Hug Yourself
When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Happiness Kindness Person Reflection
At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Fate Freedom History Place Search Time
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Democracy Government Greatness Honesty Truth Weapon
But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Achievement Future God Gratitude Nature Patriot Remember Technology World
The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Fear History Myself Politics War

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

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