“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964
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Famous Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
“I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.”
“In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 19
“Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.”
“No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964
“Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.”
“I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964
“This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.”
“A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.”
“Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.”
“There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.”
“We must open the doors of opportunity. We must equip our people to walk through those doors.”
“I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964
“I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.”
“If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.”
“Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.”
“The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.”
“The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969
“I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.”