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)

    God damnit, why must all those journalists be such sticklers for detail? Why, they’d hold you to an accurate description of the first time you ever made love, expecting you to remember the color of the room and the shape of the windows.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
    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)

    Why not draft executive and management brains to prepare and produce the equipment the $21-a-month draftee must use and forget this dollar-a-year tommyrot? Would we send an army into the field under a dollar-a-year General who had to be home Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays?
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)