But, 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. JOHNSONThere are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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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.
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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.
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