Quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson

You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.

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

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

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

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.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

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

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

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

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

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.

Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.

Our partnership has been built on four pillars The first pillar is peace. The second pillar is freedom. The third pillar is respect. The fourth pillar is cooperation.

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.

It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

I'm the only president you've got.

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

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.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.