Lyndon B. Johnson

I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Freedom is not enough.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Every President wants to do right.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Faith builds, cynicism destroys.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

We still seek no wider war.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

President Can't Swim.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

We must open the doors of opportunity.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Control of space means control of the world.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The best way to begin disarming is to begin-and the United States is ready to conclude firm agreements in these areas and…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory.…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

[The United States and Israel] share many common objectives ... chief of which is the building of a better world in which…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

New laboratories and centers will help our schools lift their standards of excellence and explore new methods of teaching. These centers will…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The United States stands by its friends. Israel is one of its friends Peace can be based only on agreement between the…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

In Asia we face an ambitious and aggressive China, but we have the will and we have the strength to help our…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I taught school in the early days of my manhood and I think I know something about mothers. There is a thread…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to…

— Lyndon B. Johnson