What we won when all of our people united just must not now be lost in suspicion, distrust, selfishness, and politics among any of our people. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.
Lyndon B. JohnsonWar is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.
Lyndon B. JohnsonAll of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.
Lyndon B. JohnsonWhoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.
Lyndon B. Johnson