Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes

So I ask you to join me in working long hours – nights and weekends, if necessary – to pass this bill. And I don’t make that request lightly. For from the window where I sit with the problems of our country I recognize that outside this chamber is the outraged conscience of a nation, […]

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

We must change to master change.

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

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

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that’s sleeping in the unplowed ground.

America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word – voluntary.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.