Dallek Lyndon Quotes

#1. Everything you want to know about a fighter is in his eyes. The look in his eyes tells the truth.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#2. If knowledge is not democratized, power can never be.

Steven Rose

#3. One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit that he also reminds me of my father, quite an overbearing and narcissistic character. And in some ways, he reminds me of myself. Another workaholic.

Robert Dallek

#4. There were fissures and chasms in the walls and floor, and every now and then a crack would open right before their feet. The widest was more than seven feet across, and it was long before Pippin could summon enough courage to leap over the dreadful gap.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. Law never made men a whit more just.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. In the morning, celebrate the beauty and warmth of sun light,
in the evening, celebrate the song of silence and love of night.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president - pilloried for the failed war in Vietnam and criticized for grandiose reforms conservatives denounce as the epitome of federal social engineering that costs too much and does too little.

Robert Dallek

#8. The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

Barbara Coloroso

#9. Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.

Robert Dallek

#10. It's not how we fall that defines us as Christians. It's how we get up again.

Karen Kingsbury

#11. During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott Roosevelt, one of Franklin Roosevelt's sons, for a telegram in which Elliott suggested that the Roosevelt family favored Lyndon Johnson.

Robert Dallek

#12. We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

Alan Moore