Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

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.

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.

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

The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.

The Air Force comes in every morning and says, 'Bomb, bomb, bomb' ... And then the State Department comes in and says, 'Not now, or not there, or too much, or not at all.'

Not now, or not there, or too much, or not at all.

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.

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

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

I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?

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

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.

Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

Come now. let us reason together.

You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.

We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

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.

President Can't Swim.

The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

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.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

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

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

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

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.

Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

It's too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they'll probably just piss it all away.

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

We must change to master change.

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.

Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

Our partnership has been built on four pillars The first pillar is peace. The second pillar is freedom. The third pillar is respect. The fourth pillar is cooperation.

We must open the doors of opportunity. We must equip our people to walk through those doors.

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.

Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

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

We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.