Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

In addition to our existing programs, I will recommend a new program for schools and students with a first-year authorization of $1,500 million.

And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a reality.

Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.

History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.

So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor.

The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.

I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.

Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel

A President must call on many persons--some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.

No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.

The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival.

Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.

The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.

I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.

Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.

Hubert (Humphrey) prepares for a major address by taking a deep breath.

[T]he 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.

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

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.

Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?

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

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 to let her have it.

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

The world has narrowed to a neighbourhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.

A president's hardest task is not to do what's right but to know what's right.

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.

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