Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim.””

“I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.””

“If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.””

“Guns and bombs, rockets and warships, are all symbols of human failure.””

“While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.””

“Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.””

“The noblest search is the search for excellence””

“Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.””

“That bitch of a war killed the lady I really loved -- the Great Society.””

“Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.””

“Better to have your enemies inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.””