While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWhile you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI’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. JOHNSONFree speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONHeck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONBut if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONLife is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONBut, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWe believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONOur objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe noblest search is the search for excellence.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONYou know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONHug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONOf course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThere are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON