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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.

Lyndon B. Johnson

A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Civilization Development Failure History Lesson Nation Planning Protection Ruin
When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Government Myself Worst
At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Fate Freedom History Place Search Time
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Deep Kind Knowledge Wisdom
You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Learning Talk Yourself
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
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
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
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
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 Enough Equality Law Right Talk Writing
There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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Human Issues Right Struggle
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
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
The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Fear History Myself Politics War
While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Face Loss Yourself
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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