You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down. 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-manmoneymen 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 raceopportunitymen Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. Lyndon B. Johnson motivationalinspirationallife Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in. Lyndon B. Johnson friendscampaignspolitical The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. Lyndon B. Johnson gunwarpeace 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 opportunitymenbelieve 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 inspirationallifefunny Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying. Lyndon B. Johnson republicantryingpeople I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years. Lyndon B. Johnson racistvotingyears You aren't learning anything when you're talking. Lyndon B. Johnson learningtalking 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 hypepoliticalhistory You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right. Lyndon B. Johnson patrioticproblemknowing 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 colorjusticeamerica 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 honestygovernmenttruth 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 swimminghumorousmorning 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 teachingeducationteacher We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. Lyndon B. Johnson patrioticinspirationwise 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 complainingkindnesslittles 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 visionkindpresident 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 wallpowerfulmen
