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.

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  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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• 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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• 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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• Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Time, Fog, Dumb

  Quoted in Richard Reeves, A Ford, Not a Lincoln (1975)

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

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  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 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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  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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• The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking half the money you make away from you, and the Attorney General is in charge of suing you for the other half.

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  Jobs, Government, Suing

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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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• 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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• 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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• You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspirational, Light, Government

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• There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Struggle, Rights, Issues

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

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

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Learning, Talking

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

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Ifs, Disagree, Disagreeable

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• 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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Funny, Hilarious, Wisdom

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• 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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Boys, Made, Princeton

  Cited in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988).

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• Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Home, Should Have, Land

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