Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after serving as the 37th Vice President of the United States under President John F. Kennedy, from 1961 to 1963. Johnson was a Democrat from Texas, who served as a United States Representative from 1937 to 1949 and as a United States Senator from 1949 to 1961. He spent six years as Senate Majority Leader, two as...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth27 August 1908
CountryUnited States of America
Lyndon B. Johnson quotes about
The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight.
We need to remember that the separation of church and state must never mean the separation of religious values from the lives of public servants. . . If we who serve free men today are to differ from the tyrants of this age, we must balance the powers in our hands with God in our hearts.
I'm the only president you've got.
It now seems to be quite a thing to pull down the mighty from their seats and roll them in the mire. This practice deserves pronounced condemnation. Hero worship is a tremendous force in uplifting and strengthening. Humanity, let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been truly great.
No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
Today our problem is not making miracles, but managing them.
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.
Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.