Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

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

I never trust a man till I've got his pecker in my pocket.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

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

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

I'm the only president you've got.

Every President wants to do right.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."

I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket.

Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is.

What convinces is conviction.

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

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.

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

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is education.

Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter - hug 'em so tight they can't wiggle.