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I’m the only president you’ve got.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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
Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Art Guide Nation Ourselves Reveal Vision
Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Fools Give Up People Time Try
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
When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Happiness Kindness Person Reflection
Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

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

Enemy Friendship Hug Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Democracy Politics
While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Face Loss Yourself
As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Funny Himself Men Stars Togetherness
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

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