Lyndon B. Johnson
21 quotations
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
A man without a vote is man without protection.
The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.
Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
We must open the doors of opportunity.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
I'm the only president you've got.
A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.
To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.
The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.