Lyndon B Johnson quotes

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

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

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

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.

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 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.

Freedom is not enough.

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.

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.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

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.

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.

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.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

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

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 CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.