Jerry 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. JOHNSONIf we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
-
-
Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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 second, let her have it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
No 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. JOHNSON -
Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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 -
In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
I’m the only president you’ve got.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON