"Yesterday is not ours to recover, only tomorrow is ours to win or lose." ― Lyndon B. Johnson
"Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance." ― Lyndon Baines Johnson
"If you can convince the everyman white human he's ameliorate than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look downward on, and he'll empty his pockets for y'all." ― Lyndon B. Johnson
"Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!" ― Lyndon Baines Johnson
"The country flourished considering information technology was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished past and then many cultures and traditions and peoples." ― President Lyndon B. Johnson at the Statue of Liberty, 10/03/1965
"We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it." ― Lyndon B. Johnson
"[T]he vote is the nigh powerful musical instrument ever devised past man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men." ― Lyndon B. Johnson
"A human being without a vote is a man without protection." ― Lyndon B. Johnson
"President Lyndon Johnson's 10 point formula for success: ane. Learn to remember names. Inefficiency at this point may point that your interest is not sufficiently approachable. 2. Be a comfy person so there is no strain in existence with yous. Be an old-shoe, sometime-chapeau kind of individual. 3. Acquire the quality of relaxed easy-going so that things practice not ruffle you. four. Don't exist egotistical. Guard against the impression that you know it all. v. Cultivate the quality of being interesting so people will get something of value from their association with you lot. 6. Study to get the "scratchy" elements out of your personality, fifty-fifty those of which y'all may be unconscious. 7. Sincerely attempt to heal, on an honest Christian basis, every msiunderstanding you have had or now accept. Drain off your grievances. 8. Do liking people until you learn to do so genuinely. 9. Never miss an opportunity to say a discussion of congratulation upon anyone'south accomplishment, or express sympathy in sorrow or disappointment. ten. Give spiritual strength to people, and they will give genuine affection to yous." ― Lyndon Johnson
"If one morning I walked on top of the water beyond the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim." ― Lyndon B. Johnson
"I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad." ― Lyndon B. Johnson
"If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, nosotros must leave them more than than the miracles of engineering. Nosotros must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just later we got through with information technology." ― Lyndon B. Johnson
"Guns and bombs, rockets and warships, are all symbols of human failure." ― Lyndon B Johnson
"Education is not a problem. Educational activity is an opportunity." ― Lyndon B. Johnson
"While you're saving your face, yous're losing your ass." ― Lyndon B. Johnson
"The noblest search is the search for excellence" ― Lyndon B. Johnson
"If we stand passively by while the heart of each metropolis becomes a hive of depravation, offense and hopelessness…if we become two people, the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear for the other…then nosotros shall effectively cripple each generation to come up." ― Lyndon Baines Johnson
"Until justice is bullheaded 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
"Emancipation was a declaration, but not a fact." ― Lyndon B. Johnson
"That bitch of a state of war killed the lady I actually loved -- the Groovy Society." ― Lyndon B. Johnson
"I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the adjacent 200 years." ― Lyndon B. Johnson
"We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, only in that location is no one else." ― Lyndon B Johnson
"It's not doing what is right that'south hard for a President. It's knowing what is right." ― Lyndon Johnson
"Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize Oh man....I could be eating a tiresome learner." ― Lyndon B. Johnson
"Don't Spit in the Soup, Nosotros All Gotta Consume" ― Lyndon B. Johnson
"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a trouble for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to support their uppityness. At present we've got to exercise something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't motion at all, then their allies volition line upwardly confronting united states of america and there'll be no mode of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and in that location'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. Information technology'll be Reconstruction all over again. [Said to Senator Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA) regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957]" ― Lyndon B. Johnson
"Victory is no longer a truth. It is only a word to draw who is left alive in the ruins" ― Lyndon B. Johnson
"As long as you lot are black, and y'all're gonna exist black till the day you die, no one'due south gonna telephone call yous by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are chosen, nigger, you simply allow it curl off your dorsum like h2o, and you'll brand it. Just pretend you're a goddamn article of furniture. [Said to his chauffeur, Robert Parker, when Parker said he'd adopt to be referred to by his proper noun rather than "boy," "nigger" or "chief."]" ― Lyndon B. Johnson
"In that location are no bug we cannot solve together, and very few we can solve by ourselves." ― Lyndon B. Johnson
"He's [Nixon] similar a Spanish horse, who runs faster than anyone for the first nine lengths so turns around and runs backwards. You lot'll run across; he'll practice something wrong in the finish. He always does." ― Lyndon Baines Johnson
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