Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

About Lyndon B. Johnson:

Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969), a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President (1961–1963). Johnson was a Democrat from Texas who served as a United States Representative from 1937 to 1949 and as a United States Senator from 1949 to 1961, including six years as Senate Majority Leader, two as Senate Minority Leader, and two as Senate Majority Whip.
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I'm the only president you've got.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Every President wants to do right.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

Lyndon B. Johnson

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!" In 1966 upon being told that President Charles DeGaulle had taken France out of NATO and that all U.S. troops must be evacuated off of French soil President Lyndon Johnson mentioned to Secretary of State Dean Rusk...

Lyndon B. Johnson

If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessness…if we become two people, the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear for the other…then we shall effecti...

Lyndon B. Johnson

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameLyndon B. Johnson
  • DescriptionAmerican politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
  • AliasesLyndon Johnson; LBJ; Lyndon Baines Johnson
  • BornAugust 27, 1908
  • DiedJanuary 22, 1973
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Teacher; Rancher
  • AwardsPresidential Medal Of Freedom; Silver Star