Top 280 Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Victory is no longer a truth. It is only a word to describe who is left alive in the ruins.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

152. “Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

153. “I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office – and by personal conviction – I am sworn to uphold that tradition.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

154. “Today our problem is not making miracles, but managing them.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

155. “The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

156. “It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

157. “We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our cities. In the backcountry we need to copy the great Appalachian Trail in all parts of America.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

158. “I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don’t believe they are talking about the same situation.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

159. “You never want to give a man a present when he’s feeling good. You want to do it when he’s down.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

160. “We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

161. “Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

162. “You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

163. “Our partnership has been built on four pillars The first pillar is peace. The second pillar is freedom. The third pillar is respect. The fourth pillar is cooperation.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

164. “It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

165. “The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

166. “All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

167. “You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

168. “If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

169. “They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

170. “When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

171. “In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

172. “In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

173. “If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

174. “I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

175. “Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

176. “Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

177. “For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

178. “You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

179. “Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

180. “I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

181. “So, I would appeal to my fellow Americans by saying, the only real road to progress for free people is through the process of law and that is the road that America will travel.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

182. “Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

183. “I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

184. “I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

185. “The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking half the money you make away from you, and the Attorney General is in charge of suing you for the other half.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

186. “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

187. “You know there is no one in the world I would rather sleep with than Yuki.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

188. “There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

189. “Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I’m going to Viet Nam’s aid!”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

190. “If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

191. “In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

192. “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

193. “True poverty does not come from God.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

194. “Every President wants to do right.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

195. “Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

196. “The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

197. “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.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

198. “For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest loans to students continuing their college studies.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

199. “As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

200. “Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson