Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
1960s, Civil Rights Bill signing speech (1964)
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: I strive to discover how to signal my companions before I die, how to give them a hand, how to spell out for them in time one complete word at least, to tell them what I think this procession is, and toward what we go. And how necessary it is for all of us together to put our steps and hearts in harmony.
To say in time a simple word to my companions, a password, like conspirators.
Yes, the purpose of Earth is not life, it is not man. Earth has existed without these, and it will live on without them. They are but the ephemeral sparks of its violent whirling.
Let us unite, let us hold each other tightly, let us merge our hearts, let us create — so long as the warmth of this earth endures, so long as no earthquakes, cataclysms, icebergs or comets come to destroy us — let us create for Earth a brain and a heart, let us give a human meaning to the superhuman struggle.
This anguish is our second duty.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
1960s, Civil Rights Bill signing speech (1964)
“Come, let us arm with speed; and let us two
Try, what our forces may united do.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
Book XIII
Homer His Iliads Translated (1660)
Percy Addleshaw (1866–1916) English journalist
Travellers (1895).
Ruperto Santos (1957) 21st-century Catholic Bishop of Balanga
Source: Church leaders hail Philippine peace deal http://www.archivioradiovaticana.va/storico/2017/04/07/church_leaders_hail_philippine_peace_deal/en-1304176 (2017)
“Let them hate us as long as they fear us.”
Caligula (12–41) 3rd Emperor of Ancient Rome, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
“Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.”
Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead
Source: The Fountainhead
“Let us be English or let us be French… but above all let us be Canadians”
John A. Macdonald (1815–1891) 1st Prime Minister of Canada
http://www.canadianwild.ca/canadiana/sirjohn.html <br class="br">Undated