Lyndon Baines Johnson

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    I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    A big family must be fun. I imagine it makes you feel you belong to something.
    —BarrĂ© Lyndon (1896–1972)

    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 highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)