Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Lyndon B. Johnson is a President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 whose observations carry a rare combination of clarity and depth. Their reputation for LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969 lends every quote an extra layer of authority. Our collection includes 54 quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson, touching on Society, History, War, Strength, and Politics — a testament to just how much they had to say. Start here and see if you agree: "I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it."

“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.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Relationship

All Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

“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.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Future

“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.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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.'”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Education

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Home

“In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Home

“I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Fear

“The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Failure

“I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Women

“You aren't learning anything when you're talking.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Learning

“I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Relationship

“This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Politics

“Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

History

“Freedom is not enough.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Age