Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes & Sayings

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”

“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.”

“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.”

“Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A man without a vote is man without protection.”

“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.”

“We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.”

“The noblest search is the search for excellence.”