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By Lyndon B. Johnson
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
- Source
- Address at Johns Hopkins University: "Peace Without Conquest.", April 7, 1965
- Read at
- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From Johnson's speech at Johns Hopkins University on April 7, 1965, about the Vietnam War. In the next lines he calls them necessary symbols that protect what we cherish, but witness to human folly.