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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Discover Education Job Journey Nation
Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Funny Man Smart Time Wasted Time
At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Education Learning Myself Oneself Problem Truth Word
Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Bed Entrepreneur Hungry Men Willing
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Excellence Search Success
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Break Destroy Different Justice Man Powerful Prison Vote
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
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Democracy Government Greatness Honesty Truth Weapon
The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Angry Destruction Hands Oneself Poor Suffering
Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Citizenship Education Money Opportunity Ourselves
It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Believe Leadership Price Time
The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Fear History Myself Politics War
This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Control Destiny People Right Vote
I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Better Black Empty Himself Men Money Myself White
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Ourselves Problem Relationship Togetherness Unity
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

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