521 Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.

There's so much that we have yet to do -- the hunger in the world, the sickness in the world, the poverty in the world. We must apply some of the great talents that we've applied to space to all these problems, and get them done, and get them done in the spirit of what's the greatest good for the greatest number.

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.

Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands more than 100 years ago.

Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.

For Bird, still a girl of principles, ideals and refinement - from her admirer, Lyndon.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must some time enter; and the summons is more loud and piercing as the event of which it warns us is at less distance. To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; but to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.