20 Notable Quotes By Lyndon B Johnson

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

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.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

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.

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

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

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

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

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

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

Freedom is not enough.

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.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

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

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.