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

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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

But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Challenge Destiny Place Safety
Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

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

Economy Simplicity
If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Agreement Talk
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Equality Justice
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Government People Purpose
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

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
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

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
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Lesson Live Past Wisdom
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

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
I’m the only president you’ve got.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

I’m the only president you’ve got.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Government
Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

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

Enemy Friendship Hug
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

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 Equality Law Right Talk Writing
Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Belief Citizenship Creation Different Justice Nation Remember
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

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

Mental Oppression Sex Violence Wife
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

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
Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Democracy Politics

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