Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.”

“The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.”

“We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.”

“We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.”

“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.”

“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'”

“We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.”

“What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.”

“Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.”

“If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.”