521 Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy's window, and say it smells like roses.

To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.

Every President wants to do right.

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

I want every family in America to have a carpet on the floor and a picture on the wall. After bread, you've got to have a picture on the wall.

Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or merely allowed to languish, then the gift turns against us, and we suffer.

Not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

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