Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Persuasion and reason are the only ways to lead them.

Message on the Occasion of the Launching of the Nuclear Submarine Sam Rayburn.

12/19/1963

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We are not the sole captain of the ship.

We don't have a national police force.

I think I know that that is what you, in your hearts, want me to do.

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