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Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. » Lyndon B. Johnson
He’s [Gerald Ford] a nice guy but he played too much football with his helmet off. » Lyndon B. Johnson
Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance. » Lyndon Baines Johnson
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few we can solve by ourselves. » Lyndon B. Johnson
If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you. » Lyndon B. Johnson
Better to have your enemies inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in. » Lyndon B. Johnson
Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean! » Lyndon Baines Johnson
I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years. » Lyndon B. Johnson
The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples. » President Lyndon B. Johnson
Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying. » Lyndon B. Johnson
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. » 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 you, then you’re in the wrong line of work. » Lyndon B. Johnson
[T]he 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. » Lyndon B. Johnson
There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility. » Lyndon B. Johnson
A man without a vote is a man without protection. » 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
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read “President Can’t Swim. » Lyndon B. Johnson
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. » Lyndon B. Johnson
I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad. » 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 want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses. » 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
If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it. » Lyndon B. Johnson
If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable. » Lyndon B. Johnson
Guns and bombs, rockets and warships, are all symbols of human failure. » Lyndon B Johnson
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. » Lyndon B. Johnson
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity. » Lyndon B. Johnson
Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry. » Lyndon B. Johnson
While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass. » Lyndon B. Johnson
You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking. » Lyndon B. Johnson
If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessness…if we become two people, the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear for the other…then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come. » Lyndon Baines Johnson
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. » Lyndon B. Johnson
The noblest search is the search for excellence » Lyndon B. Johnson
You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right. » Lyndon B. Johnson
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. » Lyndon B. Johnson
Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement. » Lyndon B. Johnson
That bitch of a war killed the lady I really loved — the Great Society. » Lyndon B. Johnson
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration. » Lyndon B. Johnson
Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact. » Lyndon B. Johnson
I’m gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm » Lyndon B. Johnson
I’ll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years. » Lyndon B. Johnson
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it. » Lyndon B. Johnson
We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else. » Lyndon B Johnson
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. » Lyndon B. Johnson
It’s not doing what is right that’s hard for a President. It’s knowing what is right. » Lyndon Johnson
If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we’ll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we’ll have to fight in San Francisco. » Lyndon B. Johnson
Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant I’m halfway through my fish burger and I realize Oh man….I could be eating a slow learner. » Lyndon B. Johnson
It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away. » Lyndon B. Johnson
Don’t Spit in the Soup, We All Gotta Eat » Lyndon B. Johnson
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. » Lyndon B. Johnson
Victory is no longer a truth. It is only a word to describe who is left alive in the ruins » Lyndon B. Johnson