The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
Lyndon B. JohnsonOur purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
Lyndon B. Johnson[The United States and Israel] share many common objectives ... chief of which is the building of a better world in which every nation can develop its resources and develop them in freedom and peace.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.
Lyndon B. JohnsonOf course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
Lyndon B. JohnsonSo far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily shortest we form projects which we delay to execute, indulge such expectations as nothing but along train of events can gratify, and suffer those passions to gain upon us which are only excusable in the prime of life.
Lyndon B. Johnson