I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
-
-
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 -
One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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 -
Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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 -
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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 -
To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
I’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. JOHNSON -
At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON -
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON