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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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Government People Purpose
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.
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Himself Play Sports Walk
Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Action Leadership Right Success Wisdom
If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Himself Mental Oppression Sex Violence Wife Yourself
To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Battle Creation Fight Knowledge Man Ourselves Sea Wealth Wild
I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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Better Black Empty Himself Men Money Myself White
There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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Human Issues Right Struggle
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.
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Human Kind Man Nation Race Rule Space
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.
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Eyes Law Mother Room Yourself
It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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Believe Leadership Price Time
Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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Economy Simplicity
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
Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Enemy Friendship Hug Yourself
If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Politics Walk Wrong Yourself
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
If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Agreement Talk

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