Quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Come now. let us reason together.

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

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?

There is but one way for a president to deal with the Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it's really going to work, the relationship between the president and the Congress has got to be almost incestuous.

We still seek no wider war.

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.