Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have...

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middl...

If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hope...

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than ...

The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No coun...

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chap...

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course ...

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!"In 1966 upon being told that President Charles DeGaulle had take...

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as ...

Freedom is not enough.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by ...

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cul...

Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there...

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does no...

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerne...

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over...

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, a...

Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well...

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being...

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she...

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon wo...

Doing what is right isn't the problem it's knowing what is right.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the fami...

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

While you're saving your face you're losing your ass. Never trust a man whose eyes are too close to ...

There is but one way for a president to deal with the Congress and that is continuously incessantl...

Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep I ask myself this question: Have I done everythin...

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent o...

This is the next and the more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedo...

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upwar...

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroy...

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First let her think she...

Yesterday is not ours to recover but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire...

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and...

[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destr...

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.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the p...

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her ow...