While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

More from Lyndon Baines Johnson

• If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
• In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for man’s interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nation’s life.
• In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for man's interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nation's life. Manpower Report of the President, March 5, 1965