Lyndon Johnson Quotes

"A man without a vote is man without protection."

"You aren't learning anything when you're talking."

"The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America."

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

"Learn from your dreams what you lack."

"We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society."

"Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it."

"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."

"We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else."

"Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife."

"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."

"They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do."

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."

"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."

"Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else."

"The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands."

"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."

"Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance"

"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."

"Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right."