Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
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 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
This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
No man should think that peace comes easily. Peace does not come by merely wanting it, or shouting for it, or marching… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon… — 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
It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint… — 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 Image
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 Image
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Image