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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Color, Years, Skins
Lyndon B. Johnson (1964). “A Time for Action”

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Football, Nice, Dumb

Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter ? hug ?em so tight they can?t wiggle.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Hug, Enemy, Ems

But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. This means better training for our teachers. It means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor. It means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Education, Teacher, Teaching
The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Education, Problem, Cures
Remarks to the Delegates to the White House Conference on Education, July 21, 1965.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Home, Boys, Asian
Speech at Akron University, Akron, Ohio, 21 Oct. 1964

The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Education, Jobs, Journey
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.172, Best Books on

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Citizens, Taxation Without Representation, Revolution
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.741, Best Books on

Nothing comes free. Nothing. Not even good, especially not good.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Environment

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Ideas, President, Speech
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.819, Best Books on

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Country, Book, Writing
Address before Joint Session of Congress, 27 Nov. 1963

In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Education, Equality, Thinking

You know when you're milking a cow and you have all that foamy white milk in the bucket and you're just about through, when all of a sudden the cow switches her tail through a pile of manure and slaps it into that foamy white milk. That's Bill Fulbright.

Lyndon B. Johnson
White, Buckets, Tails

The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking half the money you make away from you, and the Attorney General is in charge of suing you for the other half.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Jobs, Government, Suing

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Party, Two, Political

When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Kindness, Complaining, Littles

Watch their hands, watch their eyes. Read eyes. No matter what a man is saying to you, it's not as important as what you can read in his eyes. The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he's not telling you; the most important thing he has to say is what he's trying not to say.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Eye, Men, Hands

We need to remember that the separation of church and state must never mean the separation of religious values from the lives of public servants. . . If we who serve free men today are to differ from the tyrants of this age, we must balance the powers in our hands with God in our hearts.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Religious, Mean, Heart

I'm gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm

Lyndon B. Johnson
Dust, Storm, Rabbits

I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?

Lyndon B. Johnson
Powerful, Political, Politics

I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Flower, Men, Battle
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.797, Best Books on

If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her in the living room.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Mother, Eye, Law

Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Writing, May, Want

We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than the classroom. We blend time and faith and knowledge in our schools - not only to create educated citizens, but also to shape the destiny of this great Republic.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Education, School, Destiny

Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Republican, Economy, Know How