Quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.

Come now. let us reason together.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.

I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.

So, I would appeal to my fellow Americans by saying, the only real road to progress for free people is through the process of law and that is the road that America will travel.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

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.

Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.

If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them.

Doing what is right isn't the problem; it's knowing what is right.

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.