Lyndon Johnson actually said...

"Power was used--with somber reluctance--in defense of the rule of law."

"A nation, like an individual, must earn the right to have its professions of idealism taken seriously."

"Thus we cannot escape the intimate connection between our domestic and our foreign policy."

"When we claim to be sustaining the cause of freedom in the world, we are judged--and I think rightly so--in terms of our commitment to liberty and justice here at home."