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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Difference Land People Unity
Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Belief Citizenship Creation Different Justice Nation Remember
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Equality Justice Myself
I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Heart Myself Pride
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Excellence Search Success
If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Live Peace Togetherness Understand
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Endurance Genius Ourselves Politics Principles Rich
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
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Deep Kind Knowledge Wisdom
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
If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Politics Walk Wrong Yourself
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
A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Eyes Goodness Policy Power
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
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
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

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