93 Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes - BrainyQuote

American - President August 27, 1908 - January 22, 1973 See also: Quotes about Lyndon Johnson

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

Positive Tomorrow Lose Yesterday Win

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

You Say Cowboy Cross

Freedom is not enough.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

History River Morning Water

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

Together Problems Cannot Few

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

Politics Nothing Stand Like

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Marriage Wife Happy Way

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

Best God Will Help

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

Life Fear My Life Afraid

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

War Poverty Administration Here

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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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Eyes Me Women Society

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

Great Society Opportunity Rich

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

Job American Us Should

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.

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Success Purpose Aggression Just

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Will Others Aggression Numbers

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Strength You Home Country

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

Man Matter Big Who

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

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History Me Fear Russians

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Believe Matter Go Credit

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

Education Justice Opportunity Men

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Man Night Bath Right Saturday Night

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

Responsibility Trouble Down Your

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

You Man Drunk Getting

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

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Family Business Up CIA

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

You Man Better Sleep

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

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Journey Peace Time Step Miles

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