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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

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
Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Bed Entrepreneur Hungry Men Willing
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 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
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
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
Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Act Evil Past Present
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

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

Government Myself One Liner
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
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Man Night Right
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Ourselves Problem Relationship Togetherness Unity
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Morning Oneself Reading
Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Education Possible Problem

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