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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.

Lyndon B. Johnson

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Freedom Prison Skin Slave 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
At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Education Learning Myself Oneself Problem Truth Word
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
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
In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Citizenship Discover Happiness Nation Revolution
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Funny History Politics
If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Eyes Law Mother Room Yourself
We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Believe Education Investment Money Myself Yourself
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Ourselves Problem Relationship Togetherness Unity
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
You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Problem Right Wisdom
Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Easy Inspirational Justice Liberty Life Truth
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Morning Oneself Reading
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
Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Art Guide Nation Ourselves Reveal Vision

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