Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything. Lyndon B. Johnson More Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson More Quotes From Lyndon B. Johnson 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. Lyndon B. Johnson I seldom think of politics more than 18 hours a day. Lyndon B. Johnson We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam) Lyndon B. Johnson 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 satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today. Lyndon B. Johnson About Edgar J Hoover "I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in" Lyndon B. Johnson Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose. Lyndon B. Johnson Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sakebut for the nations sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not military preparednessfor armed might is worthless if we lack the brain power to build a world of peace; not our productive economyfor we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of governmentfor freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant. Lyndon B. Johnson America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations. Lyndon B. Johnson These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again. Lyndon B. Johnson It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure) Lyndon B. Johnson 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 rape your wife in your own bed. (On appeasement) Lyndon B. Johnson I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved -- the Great Society -- in order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams. Lyndon B. Johnson I greet you as the shapers of American society. Lyndon B. Johnson I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” Lyndon Baines Johnson about the Great Society plan. Unsourced quote floating around the internet for years. Lyndon B. Johnson Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good. Lyndon B. Johnson I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out. (To Prime Minister Harold Wilson) Lyndon B. Johnson Our mission is at once the oldest and the most basic of this country: to right wrong, to do justice, to serve man. Because all Americans just must have the right to vote. And we are going to give them that right. All Americans must have the privileges of citizenship regardless of race. And they are going to have those privileges of citizenship regardless of race. Lyndon B. Johnson Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad. Lyndon B. Johnson I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. (On appointing 10 women to top government positions) Lyndon B. Johnson We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors. Lyndon B. Johnson walk opportunity doors people
