«Lyndon Baines Johnson»

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

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

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

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

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

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence. Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

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

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Freedom is not enough.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

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

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

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

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

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

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

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

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

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Lyndon B. Johnson