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Lyndon B. Johnson
American
President
Born:
Aug 27
,
1908
Man
Me
People
Think
Will
You
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Time
Journey
Peace
Thousand
Must
Thousand Miles
Step
Taken
Miles
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
History
Water
President
Top
One Morning
Would
Potomac
River
Headline
Read
Walked
Afternoon
Across
Swim
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
Opportunity
Will
Men
Emancipation
Unaware
Fact
Color
Unconcerned
Until
Blind
Proclamation
Race
Skins
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
Man
Injustice
Vote
Walls
Men
Down
Other
Destroying
Powerful
Most
Instrument
Most Powerful
Terrible
Because
Different
Which
Breaking
Ever
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Future
Gratitude
Technology
World
Remember
Achieve
Miracles
Future Generations
Must
More
Through
Generations
Glimpse
Looked
Also
Sorrow
Got
Leave
Than
Just
Them
Us
Created
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
Happy
Marriage
Wife
First
Own
Think
Way
Having
Only
She
Learned
Keep
Her
Things
Necessary
Second
Two
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
You
Benefits
Light
Cause
Will
Would
Examine
Properly
Wrongs
Legislation
Convey
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Failure
Guns
Rockets
Human
Bombs
Symbols
We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.
Lyndon B. Johnson
People
Opportunity
Walk
Doors
Our
Our People
Those
Must
Through
Open
Also
Equip
The Doors
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Politics
Nothing
President
Take
Like
Being
Stand
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Together
Problems
Few
We Cannot
Ourselves
Solve
No Problems
Very
Cannot
I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
You
Presidency
Once
Nixon
Take
Hail
Like
Got
Caught
Just
Being
Storm
Stand
While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
Lyndon B. Johnson
You
Losing
Face
Saving
While
Your
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Home
Ought
Thousand
Thousand Miles
About
Boy
Doing
American
Send
Asian
Themselves
Miles
Away
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Faith
Strength
Church
Men
Nation
Separation
State
Our
Church And State
Between
Supreme
Supreme Being
Call
Does
Source
Being
Conscience
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Character
Man
Evidence
Some
Fact
Reporter
Flaw
Newspaper
Newspaper Reporter
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Family
Business
CIA
Made
Princeton
Brokerage
Boy
Up
Families
Sent
Them
Whose
A man without a vote is man without protection.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Man
Vote
Protection
Without
John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Hate
Country
Few
Victim
Our
Minds
Danger
John
John F. Kennedy
Part
Occupies
Disease
Many
Kennedy
Brings
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Problem
Knowing
Doing
Right
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Education
Man
Age
Luxury
Men
Become
Society
Others
Complex
Entered
Some
Some Men
Advantage
Over
Industrialized
Without
Educated
Truly
Person
Just
Which
Century
Necessity
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
Lyndon B. Johnson
You
Men
Thinking
Everything
Sure
Doing
May
Them
Agree
Two
A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
Lyndon B. Johnson
President
Know
Task
Hardest
Right
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Freedom
Ignorance
Freedom From
Fifth
Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Me
Confidence
Communication
Think
Our
Press
Television
Rapport
Most
Understood
Been
Tragic
Error
May
Establish
Inability
Media
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
Myself
Presidency
Worse
Seem
Could
Remind
Unusually
Always
Burdens
Mayor
Heavy
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