Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

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.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Marriage, Happy, Wife

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

Peace, Time, Step

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Failure, Human, Guns

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
Lyndon B. Johnson

History, Morning, Read

If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Wife, After, Next

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Future, Technology, Gratitude

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Together, Cannot, Problems

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Seem, Worse, Heavy

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

Light, Cause, Wrongs

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

History, Nothing, Stand

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
Lyndon B. Johnson

American, Order, United

The 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. Johnson

Men, Powerful, Down

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Home, Away, American

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Good, Person, Win

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Education, Problem

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Night, Saturday, Bath

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Down, Trouble, Fast

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Worth, Generation, Communist

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Best, God, Help

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Problem, Knowing

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Losing, While, Face

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Great, Society, Fight

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Education, Men, Justice

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Hate, Country, Minds

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
Lyndon B. Johnson

War, Tired, Feeling

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: August 27, 1908

Died: January 22, 1973

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