Lyndon Johnson Quotes (35 Quotes)

I never trust a man till I've got his pecker in my pocket

It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done

A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman... They are both... lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.

The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation --must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.

I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket.

Never trust a man whose eyes are too close to his nose

We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership

For Bird, still a girl of principles, ideals and refinement - from her admirer, Lyndon.

It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.

We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere

Light at the end of the tunnel We don't even have a tunnel we don't even know where the tunnel is.

The American people have a right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

This, then, is the state of the union free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

There's so much that we have yet to do -- the hunger in the world, the sickness in the world, the poverty in the world. We must apply some of the great talents that we've applied to space to all these problems, and get them done, and get them done in the spirit of what's the greatest good for the greatest number.

Negro poverty is not white poverty, ... Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences, radiating painful roots into the community and into the family and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice and present prejudice. They are anguishing to observe. For the negro they are a constant reminder of oppression.

The day the Senate passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 the party leaders placed a call to the White House to report the good news. You must have made a hell of a speech out there today, ... We are proud.

Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerrilla war against society

It doesn't hurt him. He likes it.

We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy.

I blame the politicians, ... The Air Force has a manual on how to fight a war. You hit them as hard as you can right at first.

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.

I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out.

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

I wrote once every two or three weeks for about a year, ... and then about a year ago, I got an e-mail.

He was the one person I ever knew, anywhere, who was never afraid.

These forces should be adequate to help meet the rights of citizens to walk peaceably and safely without injury or loss of life from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama,

I pray we are still a young and courageous nation, that we have not grown so old and so fat and so prosperous that all we can think about is to sit back with our arms around our money bags. If we choose to do that I have no doubt that the smoldering fires

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.

Unfortunately, many Americans live on the outskirts of hope, some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many because of both. This administration declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

Where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word - voluntary

The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends.