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36th U.S. President

Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th President of the United States, served from 1963 to 1969. He assumed the presidency following the assassination of John F. Kennedy and is known for his 'Great Society' programs aimed at reducing poverty and racial injustice.

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Famous Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

“You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.”

Knows Problem Easy Knowing Patriotic

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.”

Knows Young Names Common Poverty

Book: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, 1966

“Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.”

Knows Men Should Liberty Conversation Libertarian Every Man Libertarianism Personal Life Correspondence

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967

“Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is.”

Knows Ends Light Tunnels Light At The End Of The Tunnel End Of The Tunnel

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.”

Knows Investment Expenses

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967

“Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.”

Knows Know How Economy Republican Manage

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“We know that they cannot bear their share of the taxes to help pay for their education. And unless those children get a good education we know that they become dropouts and they become delinquents and they become taxeaters instead of taxpayers. We know that they will join the unemployed. That is why we put top priority on breaking the vicious cycle that today threatens the future of 5 million children in this great land of opportunity which we talk about so much.”

“There are some, I know, who see beautification as a frill, as an extra, or as something that is luxurious enough to postpone. Well, they make me impatient because I am convinced that beauty and order in our environment are not frills. I am convinced that they are urgent necessities because they will determine whether our grandchildren can live in a decent land or whether they will be surrounded by glittering junkheaps.”

Knows Wells Enough Order Environment Land Future Determine Convinced Extras Decent Grandchildren Urgent Our Environment Impatient Luxurious Frills Beautification

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

“War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.”

Knows Men World Trying Wells Stills War Enough Young Hate Peace Dying Promise Madness Young Man Fullness

Book: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, 1966

“You know when you're milking a cow and you have all that foamy white milk in the bucket and you're just about through, when all of a sudden the cow switches her tail through a pile of manure and slaps it into that foamy white milk. That's Bill Fulbright.”

Knows White Bills Milk Cows Tails American Politics Slap Buckets Manure

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“I taught school in the early days of my manhood and I think I know something about mothers. There is a thread of aspiration that runs strong in them. It is the fiber that has formed the most unselfish creatures who inhabit this earth. They want three things only; for their children to be fed, to be healthy, and to make the most of themselves.”

Thinking Knows Want Children Running School Earth Mother Three Strong Women Taught Healthy Creatures Ambition Aspiration Feds Thread Manhood Three Things Fiber Unselfish

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“A President Roosevelt comes only once in a century. I believe God knew and does know of the need of the world at this moment. I don't believe President Roosevelt is an accident in time, or that it is an accident that he is President for a third time. I believe that Franklin D. Roosevelt truly is the voice of liberty in the world.”

Knows World Needs Believe Doe Moments I Believe President Voice Liberty Destiny Century Greatness Thirds Don't Believe Accidents Believe In God Franklin Third Time President Roosevelt

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries danger with it. From the great smoke stacks of industry and from the exhausts of motors and machines, 130 million tons of soot, carbon and grime settle over the people and shroud the Nation's cities each year. From towns, factories, and stockyards, wastes pollute our rivers and streams, endangering the waters we drink and use.”

“Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.”

Knows Kind Two Subjects

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four.”

“I know - from personal experience - that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people.”

People Knows Home Values Vision Abiding Personal Experiences

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.”

Knows Want May Know How Likes Bombs Bombing Hanoi

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Knows Political Politics President Tasks Hardest Presidential Presidency Presidents Day Great Presidents Inspirational Presidential Inspiring Presidential

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Knows May Humanity Unique

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.”

Ifs Knows Together Peace Understanding Understanding And Love Peace With Others

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to which we know that the hand of death is about to put an end.”

Knows Looks Long Ends Hands Age Grief Bears Findings Regard Shame Decline Affliction Duration

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.”

Knows Stills War Forget Risk Conflict

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“You know there is no one in the world I would rather sleep with than Yuki.”

Knows World Friendship Sleep Dog

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?”

Knows Political Politics Powerful

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson