Quotes from Lyndon Johnson

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose

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 version which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First let her think she's having her way. And second let her have it.

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but stand there and take it.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right.