Lyndon B. Johnson

The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.

Lyndon B. Johnson

There are no problems which we cannot solve together, and there are very few which any of us can settle by himself.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children. Through compassion for the plight of one individual, government fulfills its purpose as the servant of all the people.

Lyndon B. Johnson

A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the world, and whom the participation of pleasures or fatigues had endeared to our remembrance.

Lyndon B. Johnson

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Lyndon B. Johnson

All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

Lyndon B. Johnson

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

Lyndon B. Johnson

All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.

Lyndon B. Johnson