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That bitch of a war killed the lady I really loved
the Great Society. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Every President wants to do right. — Lyndon B. Johnson

While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men - a great reader of men. — Robert A. Caro

You know, a man ain't worth a damn if he can't cry at the right time. — Lyndon Baines Johnson Library

Nothing comes free. Nothing. Not even good, especially not good. — Lyndon B. Johnson

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice. — Phil Hartman

He's [Gerald Ford] a nice guy but he played too much football with his helmet off. — Lyndon B. Johnson

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy. — Lyndon B. Johnson

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

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner. — Lyndon B. Johnson

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people. — Lyndon B. Johnson

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Of those to whom much is given, much is asked. — Lyndon B. Johnson

We still seek no wider war. — Lyndon B. Johnson

(President) Lyndon Johnson still snapped between exultation and insecurity. — Rick Perlstein

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement. — 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

He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets). — Casey Stengel

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life. — Bill Moyers

Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing. — Lyndon B. Johnson

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors. — Lyndon B. Johnson

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. — Lyndon B. Johnson

You aren't learning anything when you're talking. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition ... well, they are still radical ideas. — Lyndon B. Johnson

As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor? — Lyndon B. Johnson

We must change to master change. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Voting is the first duty of democracy. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in. — Lyndon B. Johnson

All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Freedom is not enough. — Lyndon B. Johnson

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings. — Lyndon B. Johnson

President Kennedy's eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson's hammer blows are designed to make men act. — Robert A. Caro

The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I'm the only president you've got. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order. — Lyndon B. Johnson

You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight. — Lyndon B. Johnson

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

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty. — Lyndon B. Johnson

There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it. — Lyndon B. Johnson

A man without a vote is a man without protection. — Lyndon B. Johnson

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid! — Lyndon B. Johnson

The noblest search is the search for excellence — Lyndon B. Johnson

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony. — Lyndon B. Johnson

[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. — 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

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I may not worry as much as Prime Minister Eshkol does about Israel, but I worry as deeply. — 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

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name. — Lyndon B. Johnson

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action. — Lyndon B. Johnson

What convinces is conviction. — Lyndon B. Johnson

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. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Success only feeds the appetite of aggression. — Lyndon B. Johnson

And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a reality. — 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

I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us. — 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

Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves. — Richard M. Nixon

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business. — Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's. — Bob Gunton

He's got great vision. If he can get outside, he can take it all the way. That's what we were worried about. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact. — Lyndon B. Johnson

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will. — Lyndon B. Johnson

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. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present. — Lyndon B. Johnson

If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Little boy crying. "My daddy has been dead for 10 yrs, but he came to town to vote for Lyndon Johnson, and didn't come to see me. — Robert Cato

There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance. — Lyndon B. Johnson

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. — 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

For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty. — 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

Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues. — P. J. O'Rourke

Determining the essence of different points of view (what Lyndon Johnson called "listening"), — Robert A. Caro

Speaking out as he had never before done in Congress, Lyndon Johnson in 1947 opposed most of Truman's Fair Deal. — Robert A. Caro

So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor. — Lyndon B. Johnson

In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land. — Lyndon B. Johnson