Lyndon Baines Johnson

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    This administration is going to be a compassionate administration. We believe in the Golden Rule of doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    Britain is mighty wobbly. It started late, because it dawdled, appeased, waited for something to turn up.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    I am not describing a distant utopia, but the kind of education which must be the great urgent work of our time. By the end of this decade, unless the work is well along, our opportunity will have slipped by.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    God damnit, why must all those journalists be such sticklers for detail? Why, they’d hold you to an accurate description of the first time you ever made love, expecting you to remember the color of the room and the shape of the windows.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    Slow rises worth, by poverty depressed:
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)