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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

A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Civilization Development Failure History Lesson Nation Planning Protection Ruin
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Equality Justice Myself
The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Fear History Myself Politics War
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
You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Learning Talk Yourself
I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Democracy Myself Time Vote
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
You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Problem Right Wisdom
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Excellence Search Success
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Book Country Enough Equality Law Right Talk Writing
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Failure Human Peace War Weapon
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
Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Citizenship Education Money Opportunity Ourselves
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
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
…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

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