Quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
[The United States and Israel] share many common objectives ... chief of which is the building of a better world in which every nation can develop its resources and develop them in freedom and peace.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
True poverty does not come from God.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: "God has favored our undertaking." God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
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.
- Lyndon B. Johnson