The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage; but whether we have the will and courage to match our commitments. Lyndon B. Johnson More Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson More Quotes From Lyndon B. Johnson I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you. Lyndon B. Johnson white-man money men 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 race opportunity men Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. Lyndon B. Johnson motivational inspirational life Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in. Lyndon B. Johnson friends campaigns political The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. Lyndon B. Johnson gun war peace You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result. Lyndon B. Johnson opportunity men believe 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 inspirational life funny Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying. Lyndon B. Johnson republican trying people I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years. Lyndon B. Johnson racist voting years You aren't learning anything when you're talking. Lyndon B. Johnson learning talking 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 hype political history You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right. Lyndon B. Johnson patriotic problem knowing Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, 'His color is not mine,' or 'His beliefs are strange and different,' in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation. Lyndon B. Johnson color justice america Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact. Lyndon B. Johnson honesty government truth If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' Lyndon B. Johnson swimming humorous morning But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. This means better training for our teachers. It means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor. It means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation. Lyndon B. Johnson teaching education teacher We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. Lyndon B. Johnson patriotic inspiration wise When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others. Lyndon B. Johnson complaining kindness littles I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for. Lyndon B. Johnson vision kind president 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 wall powerful men
