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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Freedom Ideas Right
There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Human Issues Right Struggle
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Excellence Search Success
I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Democracy Myself Time Vote
Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Education Possible Problem
No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Human Kind Man Nation Race Rule Space
If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Eyes Law Mother Room Yourself
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
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
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Government Harm Inspirational Light Wrong Yourself
A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Civilization Development Failure History Lesson Nation Planning Protection Ruin
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Humor Men Oneself Patriot Thinking
In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans 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 Nations life.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Desire Life Man Opportunity Quality Satisfaction
One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Freedom Prison Skin Slave Time
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

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