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Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

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.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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

A man without a vote is man without protection.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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

For Bird, still a girl of principles, ideals and refinement - from her admirer, Lyndon.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Freedom is not enough.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I believe the destiny of your generation-and your nation-is a rendezvous with excellence.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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

I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I'm the only president you've got.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.
Lyndon B. Johnson

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.
Lyndon B. Johnson

It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy.
Lyndon B. Johnson


It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.
Lyndon B. Johnson

It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

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.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The Air Force comes in every morning and says, "Bomb, bomb, bomb." And then the State Department comes in and says, "Not now, or not there, or too much, or not at all."
Lyndon B. Johnson

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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

The noblest search is the search for excellence.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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

his 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

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

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

We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.
Lyndon B. Johnson


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

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

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.
Lyndon B. Johnson

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Where did you find these?

Thanks for the thread!

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He had a lot of zingers didn't he?

'Freedom is not enough'.

Commencement Address at Howard University:
June 4, 1965


<snip>
The voting rights bill will be the latest, and among the most important, in a long series of victories. But this victory--as Winston Churchill said of another triumph for freedom--"is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

That beginning is freedom; and the barriers to that freedom are tumbling down. Freedom is the right to share, share fully and equally, in American society--to vote, to hold a job, to enter a public place, to go to school. It is the right to be treated in every part of our national life as a person equal in dignity and promise to all others.

But freedom is not enough. You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying: Now you are free to go where you want, and do as you desire, and choose the leaders you please.

You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.
<snip>


The speech in it's entirety is here..
http://www.hpol.org/lbj/civil-rights/

...Thanks. :thumbsup:

He will be forever tainted by the escalation of Vietnam (rightly so), but he achieved more for civil rights and the elimination of poverty than any other president, before or since.

RIP LBJ

Even if Dems could do things perfectly, they would still be attacked by the media for not doing it perfectly enough.

I thought this quote summed it up best:

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

Right out of my mouth! Ha Ha!

Peace.

As you might tell from my avatar, I'm probably the biggest LBJ fan here.
John
I mean, hell -- somebody has to be. Lyndon was a lot of things, and being a real liberal was right on top of the list.

and thats too bad frankly.

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

Pretty true for today - * is in your bedroom....