Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent repetition, his occasional rage sinks by decay of strength into peevishness; that peevishness, for want of novelty and variety, becomes habitual; the world falls off from around him, and he is left, as Homer expresses it, to devour his own heart in solitude and contempt.
Lyndon B. JohnsonJust like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!
Lyndon B. JohnsonOur understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIf government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson