“The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.”
Fear
“This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.”
WarAll Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
“This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.”
War“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.”
Home“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.”
Education“Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.”
History“I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.”
Best“I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.”
Society“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.”
Politics“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.”
Men“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.”
Success“Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.”
Learning“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'”
History“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.”
War“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.”
Strength“You aren't learning anything when you're talking.”
Learning“We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.”
Society“The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.”
Failure“Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.”
History“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.”
Communication“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.”
Age