Lyndon Johnson actually said...

You ought not to be in government if you don't want to serve humanity, if you don't want to do the greatest good for the greatest number.

Remarks at the Signing of the Truth-in-Packaging and Child Protection Bills

11/02/1966

More Lyndon Johnson Quotes

The right to enjoy plants and animals in their natural habitats--and the duty not to eliminate them from the face of this earth.

Our prosperity is unequaled; and our growth rate and price stability are the envy of the world.

It should be designed so as to set an example for the Nation, and to take its place among the most attractive in the world.

So let me assure you and my fellow Americans tonight that I will do everything in my power to defend both.