Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
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“Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.”
Colors Quotes
“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.”
Economics Quotes
“A president's hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what is right”
Presidency Quotes
“The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.”
Presidency Quotes
“Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.”
Race Quotes
“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.”
Voting Quotes
“I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get "something." That's the way our system works.”
Compromise Quotes
“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.".”
History Quotes
“Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.”
Government Quotes
“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.”
Marriage Quotes