We must open the doors of opportunity. Lyndon B. Johnson More Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson More Quotes From Lyndon B. Johnson If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her in the living room. Lyndon B. Johnson eyelawmother In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land. Lyndon B. Johnson shapeslandway If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco. Lyndon B. Johnson san-franciscofightingnext-week There are some, I know, who see beautification as a frill, as an extra, or as something that is luxurious enough to postpone. Well, they make me impatient because I am convinced that beauty and order in our environment are not frills. I am convinced that they are urgent necessities because they will determine whether our grandchildren can live in a decent land or whether they will be surrounded by glittering junkheaps. Lyndon B. Johnson futuregrandchildrenorder It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done. Lyndon B. Johnson donebelieve Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it. Lyndon B. Johnson subjectskindtwo Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me. Lyndon B. Johnson errorscommunicationthinking Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is. Lyndon B. Johnson tunnelslightends We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment. Lyndon B. Johnson moneyeducationbelieve There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights. Lyndon B. Johnson strugglerightscountry If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work. Lyndon B. Johnson linespoliticsrooms Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right. Lyndon B. Johnson knowingleadershipsuccess In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change. Lyndon B. Johnson agentsworldfirsts In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors. Lyndon B. Johnson modernsurvivorwar I know - from personal experience - that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people. Lyndon B. Johnson visionhomepeople To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore. Lyndon B. Johnson fightingriversmen Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective - taking over the South by force - could not be achieved. Lyndon B. Johnson vietnamwarenemy This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies. Lyndon B. Johnson destinygivingpeople 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 malesfemaleeye All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd;nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn't fair. Lyndon B. Johnson iowatexaspeople
