Quotes By Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm the only president you've got.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

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

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

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.

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.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

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

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

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.

Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.