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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

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Freedom Ideas Right
Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Economy Simplicity
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
Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Better Friendship Himself
This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Control Destiny People Right Vote
John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Fashion Money Worth
…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Citizenship Country Education Freedom Growth Ourselves Promise Responsibility
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
Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Act Evil Past Present
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Himself Play Sports Walk
To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Inspirational Worst
Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Destroy Each Other Knowledge Live Understand
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
You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Learning Talk Yourself
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Government Harm Inspirational Light Wrong Yourself
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

End Hard Time Light

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