A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.


Lyndon Baines Johnson

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LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
I pray we are still a young and courageous nation, that we have not grown so old and so fat and so p...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the m...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Better to have them inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klans...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
He was the one person I ever knew, anywhere, who was never afraid.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerrilla war against society
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
What convinces is conviction
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted prin...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occu...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
I'd much rather have that fellow inside my tent pissing out, than outside my tent pissing in.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the p...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
A man without a vote is a man without protection.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!"

In 1966 upon being told that President Charles DeGau...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small p...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one sing...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
He’s [Nixon] like a Spanish horse, who runs faster than anyone for the first nine lengths and then...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Just ink,’ he says. 'Just ink.’ Probably the most dangerous substance on this here earth. There�...
CHRISTIAN BAINES
On Feb. 25, she became involved in a foot chase with RCMP and was taken into custody. She was releas...
GORDON BAINES
A weakening dollar is a trend we see continuing.
ADAM BAINES
If the court doesn't enforce its orders, they become meaningless.
GORDON BAINES