Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

• I can teach it round or flat.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I want every family in America to have a carpet on the floor and a picture on the wall. After bread, you’ve got to have a picture on the wall.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Let’s press the flesh.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

• So dumb he can’t fart and chew gum at the same time.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I want loyalty. I want him to kiss my ass in Macy’s window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. I want his pecker in my pocket.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

• You let a bully come into your front yard, and the next day he’ll be on your porch.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I want to be progressive without getting both feet off the ground at the same time…a progressive who is prudent.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Future, Inspirational
• 

  A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effective, Ignorance

• Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Education, Justice, Opportunity

  Tags in Proclamation, Race, Color

• The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual’s dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Politics, Progress, Self Respect

  Tags in Community, City

• The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in State Inflicted, Faith, Strength, Church

• When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Presidency, Mayor, Political Punch, Burden

• They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Boy

• The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Boy

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

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Invention And Inventor, Rockets, War, Bomb

• I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rendezvous, Excellence, Famous, Destiny

• 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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cheaply, Responsibility, Useless, Deny

Lyndon B. Johnson (106)

Birth:	27th August, 1908
Death:	22nd January, 1973
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician, Teacher

Related Authors

• George Clymer
• Mwai Kibaki
• Mary McAleese
• Anne Campbell
• Moshe Katsav
• Zev Yaroslavsky
• Jacob Lew
• Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
• Pontius Pilate
• Brent Scowcroft

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 21st December

Births

• 1795 - Leopold Von Ranke
• 1947 - Zoe Lofgren
• 1966 - Kiefer Sutherland
• 1944 - Michael Tilson Thomas
• 1815 - Thomas Couture

Deaths

• 1992 - Stella Adler
• 1935 - Kurt Tucholsky
• 2001 - David Swift
• 1958 - Lion Feuchtwanger
• 1889 - Joseph Barber Lightfoot