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Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

American - President | August 27, 1908 - January 22, 1973

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Time Equality Law Enough Long Now

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

Learning Talking You Anything

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Good Win Believe You Person Matter

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Myself Always Seem Presidency Heavy

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

Together Problems Cannot Ourselves

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Man Small Enough Matter Bigger Big

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

Live World Brotherhood Neighborhood

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

Opportunity Great Society Rich Move

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

Failure Human Guns Symbols Rockets

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Excellence Destiny Believe Generation

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Life Love Faith Freedom Spiritual

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Someone Out Bills Store Passing Had

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