521 Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty. But it is culpable to murmur at the established order of the creation, as it is vain to oppose it. He that lives, must grow old; and he that would rather grow old than die, has God to thank for the infirmities of old age.

The American people have a right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

Europe has been at peace since 1945. But it is a restless peace thats shadowed by the threat of violence. Europe is partitioned. An unnatural line runs through the heart of a very great and a very proud nation [Germany]. History warns us that until this harsh division has been resolved, peace in Europe will never be secure. We must turn to one of the great unfinished tasks of our generationand that unfinished task is making Europe whole again.

I know - from personal experience - that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.

If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.