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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.

Lyndon B. Johnson

A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Eyes Goodness Policy Power
In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Desire Life Man Opportunity Quality Satisfaction
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Funny Happiness Herself Inspirational Learning Life Myself Thinking Wife
Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Economy Simplicity
Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Myself Room Strange Writing
No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Generation Ourselves Worth
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
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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Better Black Empty Himself Men Money Myself White
Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Achievement Missing Opportunity Word
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Failure Human Peace War Weapon
In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Change Difference Nation World
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
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Man Night Right
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 Ourselves Place Safety
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
The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Difference Land People Unity

To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.

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