Lyndon Baines Johnson

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    “This administration is going to be a compassionate administration. We believe in the Golden Rule of doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
    —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)

    “We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.”
    —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)

    “I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “You sang far better than you knew; the songs
    That for your listeners’ hungry hearts sufficed
    Still live,—but more than this to you belongs:
    You sang a race from wood and stone to Christ.”
    —James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)