Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Wisdom

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Wisdom

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

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

Happiness

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

Success

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Wisdom

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Success

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Life

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Wisdom

A man without a vote is man without protection.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Wisdom

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Wisdom

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Education

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Wisdom

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Education

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

Wisdom

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Wisdom

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Wisdom

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. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Education

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

Wisdom