“Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is ...” — Lyndon B. Johnson Quote

“Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.”

“You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.”

“You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.”

“I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.”

“I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.”

“While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.”

“I love going to work out now. It gets out aggression and my trainer really shakes it up so I don't get bored.”

“I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.”

“In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.”

“Aggression at a time when the economy was growing at substantial rates and the retail lending as an industry was growing at a substantial rate was an appropriate aggression. Caution at a time when the economic environment is so uncertain is an appropriate caution.”

“The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.”

“We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.”