Top 280 Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

252. “A President must call on many persons – some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

253. “The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

254. “One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

255. “It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

256. “Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation’s most important purpose: to fulfill the individual – his freedom, his happiness, his promise.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

257. “The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation’s concerns now is not only for man’s enjoyment-but for man’s survival.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

258. “You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

259. “Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

260. “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

261. “Already a congressman, to a mentor “I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

262. “John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

263. “There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people’s rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

264. “We Americans know – although others appear to forget – the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

265. “Liberty is not enough.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

266. “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

267. “He’s got great vision. If he can get outside, he can take it all the way. That’s what we were worried about.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

268. “I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

269. “He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such an account as will give him satisfaction.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

270. “A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the world, and whom the participation of pleasures or fatigues had endeared to our remembrance.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

271. “The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

272. “I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

273. “I want every family in America to have a carpet on the floor and a picture on the wall. After bread, you’ve got to have a picture on the wall.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

274. “We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families constitute the number one burden, the number one burden in this Nation on the school systems.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

275. “People do not come out to vote for a United States Senator. They come out to vote for the Sheriff or the County Commissioner.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

276. “Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

277. “The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

278. “We of the United States consider ourselves blessed. We have much to give thanks for. But the gift of providence we cherish most is that we were given as our neighbors on this wonderful continent the people and the nation of Canada.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

279. “The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

280. “I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

281. “I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

282. “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

283. “As the House is designed to provide a reflection of the mood of the moment, the Senate is meant to reflect the continuity of the past – to preserve the delicate balance of justice between the majority’s whims and the minority’s rights.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

284. “The best way to begin disarming is to begin-and the United States is ready to conclude firm agreements in these areas and to consider any other reasonable proposal.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

285. “No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

286. “Mr. Speaker, at a time when the nation is again confronted with necessity for calling its young men into service in the interestsof National Security, I cannot see the wisdom of denying our young women the opportunity to serve their country.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson