Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

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• I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Money, Men, White Man

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• I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Years, Voting, Racist

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• Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.11, Best Books on

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• Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Opportunity, Men, Race

  Civil Rights Symposium Address, delivered 12 December 1972. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, TX

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• Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  People, Trying, Republican

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• Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Friends, Political, Campaigns

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 31 Oct. 1971

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• You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Opportunity, Men

  Commencement Address at Howard University, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 04, 1965.

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• A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Friends, Freedom, War

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.898, Best Books on

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• I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy's window, and say it smells like roses.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Loyalty, Real, Kissing

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• I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Vision, President, Kind

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  The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Peace, War, Gun

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.398, Best Books on

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• We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Wise, Inspiration, Patriotic

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.54, Best Books on

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• I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Favors, Want, Policy

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

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Morning, Humorous, Swimming

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Humorous, Patriotic, Men

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• The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Nuts, Presidential, Littles

  "#113 Reply All's Year End Extravaganza". Reply All Podcast, www.gimletmedia.com. December 21, 2017.

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• You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Learning, Talking

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• Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Success, Knowing, Challenges

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• There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Responsibility, Trouble, Deny

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1968). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 19”, p.910, Best Books on

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• If we must disagree, let's disagree without being disagreeable.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Ifs, Disagree, Disagreeable

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• 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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Color, America, Justice

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

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• Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Honesty, Truth, Government

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• Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Money, Opportunity

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.604, Best Books on

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• 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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Lines, Politics, Rooms

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• Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspiring, Peace, Military

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.63, Best Books on

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