Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
Lyndon B. JohnsonSometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some of them are more concerned with appearance than they are with achievement. They are more concerned with style then they are with mortar, brick and concrete. They are more concerned with trivia and the superficial than they are with the things that have really built America.
Lyndon B. Johnson