“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
“Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.”
LearningAll Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.”
Peace“Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.”
Learning“The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.”
Fear“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“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.”
Society“The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.”
Business“You aren't learning anything when you're talking.”
Learning“I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.”
Best“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 seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.”
Politics“This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.”
War“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“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.”
Marriage“I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.”
Fear“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“Freedom is not enough.”
Freedom“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“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