Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes


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


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


When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner. - Lyndon B. Johnson


What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you. - Lyndon B. Johnson


We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols that protect what we cherish. - Lyndon B. Johnson


We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors. - Lyndon B. Johnson


We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. - Lyndon B. Johnson


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


We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law. - Lyndon B. Johnson


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