Words matter. These are the best Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.
I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
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.
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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.
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t fart and chew gum at the same time.
Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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.
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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.
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.
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.
This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.
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.
I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I’m going to Viet Nam’s aid!
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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.
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.
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.
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
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.
I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.
In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.
I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.
