Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

"Make no mistake. There is no such thing as a conventional nuclear weapon."

"Victory is no longer a truth. It is only a word to describe who is left alive in the ruins."

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

"The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood."

"The noblest search is the search for excellence."

"The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President."

"Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath."

"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered."

"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."

"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."

"The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky."

"Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time."

"A man without a vote is man without protection."

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

"We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors."

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

"I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women."

"This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you."

"I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war."

"This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty."