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)

    I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    I had many problems in my conduct of the office being contrasted with President Kennedy’s conduct in the office, with my manner of dealing with things and his manner, with my accent and his accent, with my background and his background. He was a great public hero, and anything I did that someone didn’t approve of, they would always feel that President Kennedy wouldn’t have done that.
    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)

    The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)