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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

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
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
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Endurance Genius Ourselves Politics Principles Rich
Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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End Hard Time Light
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
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Himself Play Sports Walk
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
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
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
Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Couple Greatness Himself Love Men Religious Wife
Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Easy Inspirational Justice Liberty Life Truth
Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Funny Man Smart Time Wasted Time
Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Action Leadership Right Success Wisdom
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
Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Achievement Ambition Comfortable Creation Future Men Present Purpose Reality Satisfaction Time
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Government Harm Inspirational Light Wrong Yourself

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