Lyndon Johnson actually said...

We need education which will stimulate and which will energize the free spirit, rather than to crush it and dampen it, as is so often true.

Remarks to the Delegates to the White House Conference on Education.

07/20/1965

More Lyndon Johnson Quotes

I know that no American serviceman wants to kill anyone.

I have just come from a meeting with the leaders of both parties in the Congress which was held in the Cabinet Room in the White House.

In this situation hesitation and vacillation could mean death for many of our people, as well as many of the citizens of other lands.

But we do not intend to be buried.