Top 280 Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

52. “The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

53. “Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

54. “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

55. “There’s something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

56. “America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

57. “The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

58. “It is the excitement of becoming – always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

59. “Power is where power goes.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

60. “If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

61. “This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

62. “In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

63. “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

64. “Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

65. “The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

66. “Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: “God has favored our undertaking.” God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

67. “There’s America, there’s the South, and then there’s Mississippi.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

68. “A man without a vote is man without protection.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

69. “If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

70. “Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

71. “Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or merely allowed to languish, then the gift turns against us, and we suffer.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

72. “It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

73. “Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

74. “In the years since then, those four freedoms – freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear – have stood as a summary of our aspirations for the American Republic and for the world.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

75. “No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

76. “Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake – but for the nation’s sake.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

77. “I’m the only president you’ve got.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

78. “The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

79. “We must change to master change.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

80. “When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

81. “For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

82. “The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

83. “What convinces is conviction.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

84. “A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky – these are man’s most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

85. “Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

86. “Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

88. “Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

89. “Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

90. “I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That’s the way our system works.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

91. “Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

92. “New laboratories and centers will help our schools lift their standards of excellence and explore new methods of teaching. These centers will provide special training for those who need and deserve special treatment.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

93. “So here is the Great Society. It’s the time – and it’s going to be soon – when nobody in this country is poor.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

94. “War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

95. “Every citizen, regardless of his race, creed, or color, is entitled to equal justice.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

96. “I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

97. “Not merely a nation but a nation of nations.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

98. “Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

99. “As we maintain the vigil of peace, we must remember that justice is a vigil, too-a vigil we must keep in our own streets and schools and among the lives of all our people-so that those who died here on their native soil shall not have died in vain.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

100. “I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson