1908-1973, Thirty-sixth President of the USA
A man without a vote is man without protection.
Lyndon B. Johnson – [Government]
A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
Lyndon B. Johnson – [Right and Rightness]
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face.
Lyndon B. Johnson – [Riots]
As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
Lyndon B. Johnson – [Neighbors]
Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.
Lyndon B. Johnson – [Knowledge]
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
Lyndon B. Johnson – [Leaders and Leadership]
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.
Lyndon B. Johnson – [America]
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 – [Time and Time Management]
I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
Lyndon B. Johnson – [Vision]
I pray we are still a young and courageous nation, that we have not grown so old and so fat and so prosperous that all we can think about is to sit back with our arms around our money bags. If we choose to do that I have no doubt that the smoldering fires will burst into flame and consume us — dollars and all.
Lyndon B. Johnson – [America]
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Lyndon B. Johnson – [Courage]
I'm the only president you've got.
Lyndon B. Johnson – [President]
If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
Lyndon B. Johnson – [Peace]
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 – [Politicians and Politics]
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 – [Constitutions]
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
Lyndon B. Johnson – [President]
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Lyndon B. Johnson – [Peace]
Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.
Lyndon B. Johnson – [Politicians and Politics]
The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
Lyndon B. Johnson – [Power]
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.
Lyndon B. Johnson – [Twentieth Century]