The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered,...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Europe has been at peace since 1945. But it is a restless peace thats shadowed by the threat of viol...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American s...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON We dont propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I hope that you of the IPA will go out into the hinterland and rouse the masses and blow the bugles ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Our mission is at once the oldest and the most basic of this country: to right wrong, to do justice,...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON In Asia we face an ambitious and aggressive China, but we have the will and we have the strength to ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private....
LYNDON B. JOHNSON This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America. I urge th...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I dont believe in labels. I want to do the best I can, all the time. I want to be progressive withou...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against yo...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon wo...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, bu...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON We must open the doors of opportunity.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
LYNDON B. JOHNSON If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I pray we are still a young and courageous nation, that we have not grown so old and so fat and so p...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of ou...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The noblest search is the search for excellence.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON A man without a vote is man without protection.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No coun...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I'm the only president you've got.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its po...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked f...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get "something." That's the way our system works.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerne...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does no...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems h...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon wo...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. The...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted prin...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerne...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroy...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you'...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon wo...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chap...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and e...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys o...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no m...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON A president's hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what is right
LYNDON B. JOHNSON When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinn...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still hav...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is o...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; s...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klans...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying ag...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon wo...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The world has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upwar...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Freedom is not enough.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent o...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The American people have a right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I never trust a man till I've got his pecker in my pocket
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Jerry Ford is so dumb that he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Learn from your dreams what you lack.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I hope your mind's not as empty as that desk
LYNDON B. JOHNSON While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Never trust a man whose eyes are too close to his nose
LYNDON B. JOHNSON This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoy...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how suc...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set u...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her ow...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, a...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' d...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I pray we are still a young and courageous nation, that we have not grown so old and so fat and so p...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance
LYNDON B. JOHNSON There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the m...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Better to have them inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in
LYNDON B. JOHNSON It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership
LYNDON B. JOHNSON A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klans...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON He was the one person I ever knew, anywhere, who was never afraid.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerrilla war against society
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON What convinces is conviction
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted prin...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occu...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I'd much rather have that fellow inside my tent pissing out, than outside my tent pissing in.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the p...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON A man without a vote is a man without protection.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!"

In 1966 upon being told that President Charles DeGau...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small p...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one sing...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON He’s [Nixon] like a Spanish horse, who runs faster than anyone for the first nine lengths and then...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON [The day the Senate passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 the party leaders placed a call to the Whit...
LYNDON JOHNSON Negro poverty is not white poverty, ... Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But t...
LYNDON JOHNSON we just added a couple of zeroes to it.
LYNDON JOHNSON There may be another coup, but I don't know what we can do,
LYNDON JOHNSON I wrote once every two or three weeks for about a year, ... and then about a year ago, I got an e-ma...
LYNDON JOHNSON I blame the politicians, ... The Air Force has a manual on how to fight a war. You hit them as hard ...
LYNDON JOHNSON You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered,...
LYNDON JOHNSON The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.
LYNDON JOHNSON I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she...
LYNDON JOHNSON I got the name when I was 13, ... I got in a fight with another boy at a Sunday school picnic. Mr. S...
LYNDON JOHNSON One of every 16 planes was shot down,
LYNDON JOHNSON These forces should be adequate to help meet the rights of citizens to walk peaceably and safely wit...
LYNDON JOHNSON It doesn't hurt him. He likes it.
LYNDON JOHNSON We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs...
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of...
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; s...
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to g...
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its po...
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON The American people have a right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our ow...
STEWART B. JOHNSON Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our...
CHARLES B. JOHNSON Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.
CHARLES B. JOHNSON We won, so what more can you say? We would've liked to break a record, but that didn't happen tonigh...
LYNDON FERNS