521 Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?

There are some, I know, who see beautification as a frill, as an extra, or as something that is luxurious enough to postpone. Well, they make me impatient because I am convinced that beauty and order in our environment are not frills. I am convinced that they are urgent necessities because they will determine whether our grandchildren can live in a decent land or whether they will be surrounded by glittering junkheaps.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

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.

We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today's population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow.

Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.

War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.