Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes, Thoughts and images

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

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

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy's window, and say it smells like roses.

The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is thinking.

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

There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.

Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.

If we must disagree, let's disagree without being disagreeable.

Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the colour of his skin.

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

There are no favourites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

If the government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

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