Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

“To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.”

“Only two things are necessary to keep ones wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.”

“Light at the end of the tunnel? We dont even have a tunnel; we dont even know where the tunnel is.”

“Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.”

“We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society.”

“There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.”

“We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.”

“Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter - hug em so tight they cant wiggle”

“Offer hugs, not drugs.”

“I never trust a man unless Ive got his pecker in my pocket.”

“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read President Cant Swim”

“The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation --must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.”

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

“While youre saving your face, youre losing your ass.”

“It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention”

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

If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessness…if we become two people, the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear for the other…then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

Already a congressman, to a mentor I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.