521 Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual.

It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.

...International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration...The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.

I hope your mind's not as empty as that desk

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country--instead of dying for it.

Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, 'His color is not mine,' or 'His beliefs are strange and different,' in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.