521 Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.

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.

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.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we’ll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we’ll have to fight in San Francisco.

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.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.