Quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson

We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

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.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

Not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help—and God's.

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.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for a hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter—and to write in the books of law.

Come now, let us reason together.

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 the good.

We still seek no wider war.