Lyndon Baines Johnson

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    “I want to go back, like Ponce de Leon, to the Fountain.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to brotherhood.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men—and closes its hearts to none.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.”
    —Eugene J. McCarthy (b. 1916)

    “I taught school in the early days of my manhood and I think I know something about mothers. There is a thread of aspiration that runs strong in them. It is the fiber that has formed the most unselfish creatures who inhabit this earth. They want three things only; for their children to be fed, to be healthy, and to make the most of themselves.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)