Lyndon Baines Johnson

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    I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    I pray we are still a young and courageous nation, that we have not grown so old and so fat and so prosperous that all we can think about is to sit back with our arms around our money bags. If we choose to do that I have no doubt that the smoldering fires will burst into flame and consume us—dollars and all.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.... It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community.... It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    Every President wants to do right.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)