Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Profession : President

Birth : August 27, 1908

A man without a vote is man without protection.

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

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The 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

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

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