Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

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

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.

There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.

When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.

Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.

Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter ? hug ?em so tight they can?t wiggle.

If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her in the living room.

'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

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.

. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining

In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.

It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.

[The United States and Israel] share many common objectives ... chief of which is the building of a better world in which every nation can develop its resources and develop them in freedom and peace.

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.

What convinces is conviction.

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

Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the nation's sake.

[E]very man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential - unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income.

The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.

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

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.

If we must disagree, let's disagree without being disagreeable.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

John ain't been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education."

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

I know - from personal experience - that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people.

I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.

Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.

As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?