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On the recordMarch 14, 1966
It is a lesson which we should have learned long ago for it was really one of our Founding Fathers, John Jay, who warned us: 'It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it.'
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Signing of the Supplemental Military Authorization Bill

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