Top 405 Quotes & Sayings by Lyndon B. Johnson
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Last updated on September 16, 2024.
I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Freedom is not enough.
When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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 is to let her have it.
The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.
The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
A man without a vote is man without protection.
I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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 President.
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
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