“This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.”
War
“Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.”
HistoryAll Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
“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“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“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 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“The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.”
Failure“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“Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.”
Learning“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.”
Peace“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“The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.”
Fear“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“Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.”
Education“The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.”
Business“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'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“I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.”
Fear“We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.”
Society“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“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.”
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