Lyndon Baines Johnson

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    “All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

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

    “I shall not seek and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “After all that men could do had failed, the Martians were destroyed and humanity was saved by the littlest things which God in his wisdom had put upon this Earth.”
    —BarrĂ© Lyndon (1896–1972)

    “John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “Slow rises worth, by poverty depressed:”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)