#ld

Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#barn #build #carpenter #down #good

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#anybody #being #felt #hasn #held

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#am #better #better world #building #concerned

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

#caught #got #hail #i #jackass

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#eighteen #hours #i #more #politics

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

#me #nobody #poetry #put #read

The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#bodies #celestial #claim #countries #country

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#asian #call #job #should #supply

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#could #deeply #enjoyed #father #generously

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#dealer #feel #how #leaguer #liberty