Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

Lyndon B. Johnson (97)

Birth:	27th August, 1908
Death:	22nd January, 1973
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician, Teacher

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• One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in President, Golf, Learn, Lesson

• I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help – and God’s.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in God

  Tags in Help

• We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in People

• Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace

• You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Debate, Got

• Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in America, Love, Society

  Tags in Israel, Hebrew, Good

• Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Media, Error, Rapport, Establish

• I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Afraid

• No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Communist, Thirties, Worth

• I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Unabashed, Statement, Women

• To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Male, Women

• The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War

• This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in America

  Tags in Drop, War

• This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Father, Love

  Tags in Enjoyed

• I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Achievement, Challenge

• Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• 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

  Tags in Convey, Legislation

• What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Tags in Presidency, Accordingly

• Whether 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. Johnson

  Tags in Dealer

• We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Opportunity, Power