If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThroughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThis is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThey call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.
Lyndon B. JohnsonNothing 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. Johnson