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War Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
- If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the…
- We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.
- We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who have…
- We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western…
- In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength…
- This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.
- Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.
- We still seek no wider war.
- Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its…
- In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.
- Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
- The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
- I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the…
- This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
- This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
- The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
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- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
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