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
Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
Did you ever think that making a speech on economy is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.
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'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
What convinces is conviction.
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon the light, points of time where one course of action ends and another begins.
Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.
I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.