521 Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

If you’re not listening, you’re not learning.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.

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

We Americans know – although others appear to forget – the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.

The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right.

In the years since then, those four freedoms – freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear – have stood as a summary of our aspirations for the American Republic and for the world.