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I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.

I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Years, Voting, Racist

I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Money, Men, White Man

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

Lyndon B. Johnson
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.11, Best Books on

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Opportunity, Men, Race
Civil Rights Symposium Address, delivered 12 December 1972. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, TX

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

Lyndon B. Johnson
People, Trying, Republican

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Friends, Political, Campaigns
Quoted in N.Y. Times, 31 Oct. 1971

You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Believe, Opportunity, Men
Commencement Address at Howard University, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 04, 1965.

A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Friends, Freedom, War
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.898, Best Books on

I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy's window, and say it smells like roses.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Loyalty, Real, Kissing

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Vision, President, Kind

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

Lyndon B. Johnson
Peace, War, Gun
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.398, Best Books on

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Wise, Inspiration, Patriotic
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.54, Best Books on

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

Lyndon B. Johnson
Morning, Humorous, Swimming
"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Past, Evil, Presidential
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.876, Best Books on

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Humorous, Patriotic, Men

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

Lyndon B. Johnson
Favors, Want, Policy

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

Lyndon B. Johnson
Learning, Talking

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

Lyndon B. Johnson
Saving, Faces, Losing

If we must disagree, let's disagree without being disagreeable.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Ifs, Disagree, Disagreeable

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Friday, Sunday, Weekend

Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Tunnels, Light, Ends

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Education, Money, Opportunity
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.604, Best Books on

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Conservative, Republican, Democrat

Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Congratulations, Opportunity, Achievement

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Our Generation, Generations, Quitting