Lyndon Johnson actually said...

But if we don't get the tax surcharge we have asked for, we are going to be unable to hold the line.

Remarks at a Meeting With the President's Committee on Consumer Interests.

10/11/1967

More Lyndon Johnson Quotes

Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield.

This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless.

This act flows from a clear and simple wrong. Its only purpose is to right that wrong.

The time for failure is gone.