There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves. – Lyndon B. Johnson
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law. – Lyndon B. Johnson
Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it. – Lyndon B. Johnson
I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world. – Lyndon B. Johnson
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. – Lyndon B. Johnson
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. – Lyndon B. Johnson
I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it. – Lyndon B. Johnson
I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence. – Lyndon B. Johnson
We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors. – Lyndon B. Johnson
This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you. – Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many. – Lyndon B. Johnson
A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it. – Lyndon B. Johnson
