Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“That bitch of a war killed the lady I really loved -- the Great Society.” — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
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… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
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… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom and they… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
