Quotes By Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."

Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

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.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

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

Freedom is not enough.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

Every President wants to do right.

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.

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

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.