Quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson
It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
I'm the only president you've got.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Let's face it. Our ass is in a crack. We're gonna have to let this nigger bill pass. [Said to Senator John Stennis (D-MS) during debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1957]
- Lyndon B. Johnson