521 Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

[The United States and Israel] share many common objectives ... chief of which is the building of a better world in which every nation can develop its resources and develop them in freedom and peace.

If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes sympathy, and a little attention will show them, that those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. Nearly 54 million - more than one-quarter of all America - have not even finished high school.

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.

You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.

I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.

This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.

I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.