Johnson Quote by Lord Byron

The real Jack Johnson was both more and less than those who loved or those who hated him ever knew. He embodied American individualism…

— Geoffrey Ward

“I figured anything Maxine Rothaus called rough was, in fact, vicious and lawless and inclined to eat its own young.”

— Melissa Jensen

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

— Edward Dahlberg

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“This man who in the pursuit of his aims could be so utterly ruthless—who would let nothing stand in his way; who, in the…

— Robert A. Caro

“Lyndon Johnson bared his scars, American. . . stars 'n bars.”

— Neil Young

He was as great as a man can be without morality.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.

— Yair Lapid

Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as…

— Bill Moyers

“The second most powerful man in the country.” All his life Lyndon Johnson had been taking “nothing jobs” and making them into something—something big.…

— Robert A. Caro

“I remember arguing that moral greatness had little meaning without action to effect the moral end.”

— Geraldine Brooks

A man who took history in his hands and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice

— Barack Obama