Lyndon B. Johnson

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• If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’

  Often credited to Margaret Thatcher

  • Clever Jabs
  • Journalism

• Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but stand there and take it.

  • Presidency

• It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

  On FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, as quoted in The New York Times (31 October 1971)

  • Politics

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy