Top 100 Quotes About Lyndon B Johnson
#1. He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).
Casey Stengel
#2. I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.
Erich Leinsdorf
#3. Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it).
Rick Perlstein
#4. The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.
Jesse Jackson
#5. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.
Henry Rollins
#6. When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them - part and parcel of President Lyndon B. Johnson's determination to keep the costs of his increasingly futile military escalation in Southeast Asia from the public.
Rick Perlstein
#7. John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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#8. Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, 'His color is not mine,' or 'His beliefs are strange and different,' in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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#10. We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.
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#11. A President must call on many persons
some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.
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#12. The time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.
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#13. Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.
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#14. Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.
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#15. People do not come out to vote for a United States Senator. They come out to vote for the Sheriff or the County Commissioner.
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#16. 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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#17. Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division.
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#18. Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.
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#19. History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education ... I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.
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#20. Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.
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#21. We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our cities. In the backcountry we need to copy the great Appalachian Trail in all parts of America.
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#22. This is the next and the more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom but opportunity. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.
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#23. All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.
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#24. Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his happiness, his promise.
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#25. Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.
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#26. When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.
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#27. You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.
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#28. New laboratories and centers will help our schools lift their standards of excellence and explore new methods of teaching. These centers will provide special training for those who need and deserve special treatment.
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#29. "All men are created equal." "Government by consent of the governed." "Give me liberty or give me death." And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
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#31. Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.
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#32. Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
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#33. I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out.
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#34. For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.
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#35. We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today's population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow.
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#36. We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.
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#37. Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.
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#38. You know when you're milking a cow and you have all that foamy white milk in the bucket and you're just about through, when all of a sudden the cow switches her tail through a pile of manure and slaps it into that foamy white milk. That's Bill Fulbright.
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#39. Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
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#40. I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.
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#41. If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the Straits of Tiran would be closed. The right of innocent, maritime passage must be preserved for all nations
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#42. [T]he 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.
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#43. How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.
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#44. Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter ? hug ?em so tight they can?t wiggle.
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#45. If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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#49. I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.
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#51. Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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#52. Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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#53. We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for
behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation.
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#54. [E]very man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential - unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income.
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#55. If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her in the living room.
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#56. Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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#57. Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.
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#58. Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. Nearly 54 million - more than one-quarter of all America - have not even finished high school.
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#59. This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
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#60. That bitch of a war killed the lady I really loved
the Great Society.
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#61. When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
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#62. No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.
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#65. The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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#66. He's [Nixon] like a Spanish horse, who runs faster than anyone for the first nine lengths and then turns around and runs backwards. You'll see; he'll do something wrong in the end. He always does.
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#67. Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands more than 100 years ago.
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#68. A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.
Glenn Greenwald
#69. A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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#70. The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight.
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#71. My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country
instead of dying for it.
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#72. I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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#73. You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down.
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#74. A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity of age; and in age we must labour to recall the fire and impetuosity of youth; in youth we must learn to respect, and in age to enjoy.
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#75. We of the United States consider ourselves blessed. We have much to give thanks for. But the gift of providence we cherish most is that we were given as our neighbors on this wonderful continent the people and the nation of Canada.
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#76. There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.
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#77. He [Lyndon Baines Johnson]turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.
Herbert Mitgang
#78. Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
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#79. 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.
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#81. If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.
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#82. 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.
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#83. To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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#84. The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people.
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#85. I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.
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#86. You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.
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#87. 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.
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#88. I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
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#89. But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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#90. 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 effectively cripple each generation to come.
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#92. Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize Oh man ... I could be eating a slow learner.
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#93. I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office - and by personal conviction - I am sworn to uphold that tradition.
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#94. Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.
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#95. Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
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#96. So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor.
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#97. I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.
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#99. When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.
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#100. Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is.
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