Taxpayer Quotes by 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 somewhere out…

— 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 we cannot…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.

— 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 way. And…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I'm the only president you've got.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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