“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.”
Future
“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.”
RelationshipAll Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
“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“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“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“I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.”
Best“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“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“In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.”
Home“I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.”
Fear“The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.”
Failure“I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.”
Women“You aren't learning anything when you're talking.”
Learning“I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.”
Society“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.”
Relationship“This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.”
War“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.”
Faith“What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.”
Politics“Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.”
History“Freedom is not enough.”
Freedom“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