Lyndon Johnson Quotations

Where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith.

Unfortunately, many Americans live on the outskirts of hope, some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many because of both. This administration declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

One of every 16 planes was shot down,

Negro poverty is not white poverty, ... Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences, radiating painful roots into the community and into the family and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice and present prejudice. They are anguishing to observe. For the negro they are a constant reminder of oppression.

Never trust a man whose eyes are too close to his nose

I got the name when I was 13, ... I got in a fight with another boy at a Sunday school picnic. Mr. Stiglitz, the Sunday school teacher, called me that, and it stuck.

I blame the politicians, ... The Air Force has a manual on how to fight a war. You hit them as hard as you can right at first.

He was one of the few guys that could keep his focus and keep his mechanics.

Guys were nailing him. He wanted us to see how tough he was. He's a very confident, very aggressive kid, which is a little different for a kicker.

Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerrilla war against society

we just added a couple of zeroes to it.

We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership

Better to have them inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in

Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president,

The world has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

You must have made a hell of a speech out there today, We are proud.

There may be another coup, but I don't know what we can do,

It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy.

It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.

I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket.

I never trust a man till I've got his pecker in my pocket

He's excited to show them what they missed.

I don't like to take sides. I'm not very good at it. I'm not a very combative person.

These forces should be adequate to help meet the rights of citizens to walk peaceably and safely without injury or loss of life from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama,