Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONAny man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONAt times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONJohn ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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. JOHNSONYesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe noblest search is the search for excellence.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWhether 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. JOHNSONDoing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONAs man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
LYNDON B. JOHNSONTo hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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. JOHNSONDemocrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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. JOHNSONThe 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. JOHNSONIn a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON