their hearts and minds will follow

Dennis Baron debaron at UIUC.EDU
Wed Oct 4 00:40:53 UTC 2006


Another quote question: was it Lyndon Johnson or Robert Macnamara, or
someone else entirely, who said the line, "when you've got them by
the balls, their hearts and minds will follow"? Is there even a locus
classicus for the expression?

Dennis

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