Born This Day

Classic Quotes by Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) US President (36), Vice President (37)

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

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

A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman... They are both... lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.

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

Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

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

Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.