In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIn a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIt’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. JOHNSONTo hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONLight at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONOur understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONJerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONKnowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONNever miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONNo national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThere are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONYou aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIn 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONA good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONDoing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON