Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Profession : President

Birth : August 27, 1908

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

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.

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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.

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I'm the only president you've got.

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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.

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What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

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Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

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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.

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

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It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

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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.

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They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

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Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

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There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

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I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

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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.

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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.

Lyndon B. Johnson