Quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson

Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.

We must not only protect the country side and save it from destruction, we must restore what has been destroyed and salvage the beauty and charm of our cities ... Once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. And once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature, his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted.

There's America, there's the South, and then there's Mississippi.

He wouldn't know how to pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel.

Already a congressman, to a mentor I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.

Is our world gone? We say Farewell. Is a new world coming? We welcome it, and we will bend it to the hopes of man.

If we fail now, we shall have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith, that freedom asks more than it gives, and that the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.

How incredible it is that in this fragile existence, we should hate and destroy one another.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

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.