Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

"Freedom is not enough."
58 Quotes
"Freedom is not enough."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"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
"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
"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"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."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"The noblest search is the search for excellence."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts."
Lyndon B. Johnson
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