Quotes By Lyndon B. Johnson

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

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

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.

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

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.

If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed.

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

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.

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

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

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

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

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

I'm the only president you've got.

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.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

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.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

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

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.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

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.