521 Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.

Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I’m going to Vietnam.

Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation’s most important purpose: to fulfill the individual – his freedom, his happiness, his promise.

So here is the Great Society. It’s the time – and it’s going to be soon – when nobody in this country is poor.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation’s concerns now is not only for man’s enjoyment-but for man’s survival.

I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office – and by personal conviction – I am sworn to uphold that tradition.