All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today. Lyndon B. Johnson More Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson More Quotes From Lyndon B. Johnson If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. Lyndon B. Johnson patriotichumorousmen Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. Lyndon B. Johnson weekendfridaysunday Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes. Lyndon B. Johnson smarttimefunny At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom. Lyndon B. Johnson fateshapesmen 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 princetonmadeboys ...International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration...The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared. Lyndon B. Johnson presidentialresponsibilitycountry One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin. Lyndon B. Johnson colorskinsyears 'If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he'll be on your porch and the next day he'll rape your wife in your own bed. Lyndon B. Johnson next-daybullywife If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better. Lyndon B. Johnson understandingtogetherpeace 'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories. Lyndon B. Johnson clevermotivationalinspirational In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk. Lyndon B. Johnson equalityeducationthinking Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some of them are more concerned with appearance than they are with achievement. They are more concerned with style then they are with mortar, brick and concrete. They are more concerned with trivia and the superficial than they are with the things that have really built America. Lyndon B. Johnson realselfamerica Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish. Lyndon B. Johnson carpe-diempeopleart 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. Lyndon B. Johnson asianhomeboys Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid! Lyndon B. Johnson alamoaidsdamn Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy. Lyndon B. Johnson economyknow-howrepublican Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four. Lyndon B. Johnson landshould-havehome Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter ? hug ?em so tight they can?t wiggle. Lyndon B. Johnson hugemsenemy But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it. Lyndon B. Johnson gratitudepatrioticnature No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind. Lyndon B. Johnson questsspacerace
