My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
What we won when all of our people united just must not now be lost in suspicion, distrust, selfishness, and politics among… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A President Roosevelt comes only once in a century. I believe God knew and does know of the need of the world… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
For it was only after I could become President of this country that I could really see in all its hopeful and… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A President must call on many persons--some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it… — 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
