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Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes | Quotes said by Lyndon B. Johnson

  • Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #1

    [T]he 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.


  • Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #2

    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 Quote #3

    Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!

    In 1966 upon being told that President Charles DeGaulle had taken France out of NATO and that all U.S. troops must be evacuated off of French soil President Lyndon Johnson mentioned to Secretary of State Dean Rusk that he should ask DeGaulle about the Americans buried in France. Dean implied in his answer that that DeGaulle should not really be asked that in the meeting at which point President Johnson then told Secretary of State Dean Rusk:

    Ask him about the cemeteries Dean!

    That made it into a Presidential Order so he had to ask President DeGaulle.

    So at end of the meeting Dean did ask DeGaulle if his order to remove all U.S. troops from French soil also included the 60,000+ soldiers buried in France from World War I and World War II.

    DeGaulle, embarrassed, got up and left and never answered.

  • Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #4

    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 Quote #5

    Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

  • Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #6

    Freedom is not enough.

  • Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #7

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

  • Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #8

    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.

  • Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #9

    I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

  • Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #10

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

  • Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #11

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

  • Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #12

    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 Quote #13

    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 Quote #14

    If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessness…if we become two people, the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear for the other…then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.

  • Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #15

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

  • Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #16

    Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

  • Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #17

    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 Quote #18

    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 Quote #19

    Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

  • Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #20

    Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

  • Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #21

    Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

  • Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #22

    The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

  • Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #23

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

  • Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #24

    The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

  • Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #25

    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 Quote #26

    The noblest search is the search for excellence.

  • Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #27

    The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

  • Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #28

    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 Quote #29

    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.

  • Lyndon B. Johnson Quote #30

    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.

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