Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

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 aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

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

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.