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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Difference Heart Nation Poison Prayer Spring Understand Wisdom
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Book Country Enough Equality Law Right Talk Writing
I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Democracy Myself Time Vote
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 Men Opportunity Race Skin
At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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Fate Freedom History Place Search Time
Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Fools Give Up People Time Try
Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Achievement Enemy Force Goal Recognition War
I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Acceptance Myself Seek Yourself
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

Funny Happiness Herself Inspirational Learning Life Myself Thinking Wife
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Himself Play Sports Walk
Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Act Evil Past Present
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Failure Human Peace War Weapon
No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Generation Ourselves Worth
If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Agreement Talk
Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Art Guide Nation Ourselves Reveal Vision
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Government People Purpose

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