Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson on Wise Famous Quotes.
We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.
Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can ... Have I done enough?
Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.
Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.
I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.
Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is.
The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources
because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.
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.
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.
No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.
When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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.
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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.
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.
It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining
The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.
It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.
There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.
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.
Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.
And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a reality.
It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.
I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.
I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.
Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!