73 result(s) for Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes.
"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."
"A man without a vote is a man without protection."
"I believe that every man has a right to be heard; no matter how lowly his position."
"The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man must be his brother's keeper."
"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."
"Every president has taken comfort and courage when told... that the Lord 'will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed.'"
"I think one of the great tragedies that we have faced in the past years has been the callous disregard for life."
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"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'"
"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harm it would cause if improperly administered."
"Peace is a journey of a thousand miles, and it must be taken one step at a time."
"This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty."
"The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources -- because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples."
"The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man has the right to bodily nourishment."
"We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man."
"Do not forget how blessed you are. Forget each kindness that you do as soon as you have done it. Forget the praise that falls on your ear the moment it is uttered. Forget the slander that lies a few days or weeks. Let it pass, let it go, let it fly away."
"The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public servants and God must continue."
"Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history."
"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."
"Change is inevitable. But we have the capacity to shape our future."
"Learn from your mistakes, but don't repeat them."
"Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath."
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"The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have."
"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered."
"Whenever you take an action in war, any action, there are unexpected consequences."
"Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance."
"A president's hardest task is not to wage war but to prevent it."
"If we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but, rather because of what we believe."
"If the American people care more about winning the war than about winning the peace, all of the sacrifice is for naught."
"The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure."
"The lowest farthing you pay will often serve you better than the best promises to pay."
"If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking."
"I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's."
"There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves."
"When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor."
"No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn."
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"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim'."
"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."
"You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible."
"This administration is going to try to defeat you. It isn't going to be easy."
"It's better to have him inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in."
"I believe that every man has a right to a Saturday night bath."
"I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help – and God's."
"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."
"Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right."
"Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them."
"If you're not being crucified, maybe you're not really representing Him."
"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."
"The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force, it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child."
"I may not know much, but I know the difference between chicken s**t and chicken salad."
"The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure."
"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't, you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you."
"If you're in politics and you're unable to wake up in the morning and look at yourself in the mirror, you have no business being in politics."
"Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken s**t from chicken salad."
"Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time."
"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."
"Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity."
"The noblest search is the search for excellence."
"Yesterday is not too late to take a stand. Today is the day to do so."
"If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them with a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it."
"We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it."
"We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors."
"The men who have guided this nation through the most difficult times were those who dared to dream of a better, stronger, and more just America."
"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you."
"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."
"I believe that being a president of a democracy means more than taking refuge in public opinion polls or getting advice from your pollsters."
"No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long."
"A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right."
"I look to the day when this city will be as it should be: the city of brotherly love, not the city of brotherly fear."
"The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources – because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples."
"The battle against ignorance is a battle against non-comprehension – a fight against doubt and suspicion."
"He who knows what the president is doing must make his voice energetically heard if he is convinced that it is wrong."
"I do not intend to be the president who sees the problems of this country and does nothing about it."
"Our society cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor."
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