Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Profession : President

Birth : August 27, 1908

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

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

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

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

Lyndon B. 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

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.

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 Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

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

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Lyndon B. Johnson

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

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