Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

• The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

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• This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in America

  Tags in Drop, War

• This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Father, Love

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• I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Achievement, Challenge

• Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

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  Tags in Legislation, Convey

• 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.

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• Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

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• We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

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  Topics in Opportunity, Power

• We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

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• This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

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• 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.

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• The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.

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• There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

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• The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

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• The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

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  Tags in Journalism, Reporter, Flaw

• 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.

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  Tags in Cold War, Vietnam War

• If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

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• If you let a bully come in your front yard, he’ll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he’ll r*pe your wife in your own bed.

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• It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

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Lyndon B. Johnson (106)

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

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