Top 93 Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

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.

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.

You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.