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
I hope your mind's not as empty as that desk
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
What convinces is conviction.
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education."
If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed.
Way back last summer I asked some of the most outstanding educational minds in this Nation to tackle this problem. I gave them a single instruction: find out how we can best invest each education dollar so that it will do the most good. Your support and the support of every leading education group proves that they did their job better than I had hoped, because for the first time we have succeeded in finding goals which unite us rather than divide us.
The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.