Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
Often referred to as LBJ, Johnson was an American politician. After serving a long career in U.S. legislatures, he became the Vice President under John F. Kennedy (1961-1963) and later succeeded to the 36th Presidency (1963-1969) after Kennedy's assassination.
(1908 - 1973)
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A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.
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A man without a vote is man without protection.
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A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
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America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.
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Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
[History]
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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.
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Doing what is right isn't the problem; it's knowing what is right.
[Action]
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Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
[Education]
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?
[Evenings]
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Every President wants to do right.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
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I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.
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I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.
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I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
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I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
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I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.
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