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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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
Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Freedom Ideas Right
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
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
Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Democracy Politics
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
Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Action Leadership Right Success Wisdom
You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Learning Talk Yourself
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
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
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
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
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Break Destroy Different Justice Man Powerful Prison Vote
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
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
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

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