Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

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

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

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

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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