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Presidency Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
- Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.
- When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
- Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
- The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough…
- A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
- 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…
- What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not…
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