Lyndon B. Johnson

Quotes

• “If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessness…if we becom...”
• “We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has beco...”
• “This is the next and the more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom but opportunity. W...”
• “If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of...”
• “There is but one way for a president to deal with the Congress and that is continuously incessantly and without inter...”
• “While you're saving your face you're losing your ass. Never trust a man whose eyes are too close to his nose. I never tr...”
• “The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees...”
• “I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a ...”
• “There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interrupt...”
• “I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our s...”
• “Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television ...”
• “Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of hu...”
• “[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible w...”
• “Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of ...”
• “The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible wal...”
• “The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separatio...”
• “The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permit...”
• “I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First let her think she's having her own wa...”
• “I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own wa...”
• “We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write i...”
• “Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way and the other...”
• “I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worry...”
• “Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Hav...”
• “To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes ...”
• “The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions...”
• “If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President...”
• “One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the Preside...”
• “We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Socie...”
• “The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage busines...”
• “Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.”
• “The world has narrowed to a neighbourhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.”
• “A president's hardest task is not to do what's right but to know what's right.”
• “Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.”
• “I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.”
• “This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.”
• “Yesterday is not ours to recover but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
• “I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.”
• “I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.”
• “In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.”
• “Doing what is right isn't the problem it's knowing what is right.”
• “Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.”
• “Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.”
• “We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.”
• “I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.”
• “Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.”
• “I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.”
• “You aren't learning anything when you're talking.”
• “Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.”
• “The noblest search is the search for excellence.”
• “The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.”