Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Our people have a right to feel secure in their homes and on their streets--and that right just must be secured.

Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union.

01/11/1966

More Lyndon Johnson Quotes

The Peace Corps produces a high yield in results, at a low budgetary cost.

In short, it would force us to gamble with the Nation's security.

Our military needs have been substantially greater than that ever since we first committed troops to combat in Korea in the summer of 1950.

It is building a growing reserve of capable and tested citizens devoted to public service.