Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
-
-
There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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 in the living room.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON