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

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

Lyndon B. Johnson
Time, Fog, Dumb
Quoted in Richard Reeves, A Ford, Not a Lincoln (1975)

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and regularity of former times, and celebrates the discipline and sobriety of the age in which his youth was passed; a happy age which is now no more to be expected, since confusion has broken in upon the world, and thrown down all the boundaries of civility and reverence.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Men, Discipline, Broken

But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Destiny, Challenges, Society
The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

I know - from personal experience - that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Home, People, Vision

You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Men, Giving, Feel Good

I'm the only president you've got.

Lyndon B. Johnson
President

It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon the light, points of time where one course of action ends and another begins.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Happy Life, Light, Action

I shall never forget the faces of the boys and the girls in that little Welhausen Mexican School, and I remember even yet the pain of realizing and knowing then that college was closed to practically every one of those children because they were too poor. And I think it was then that I made up my mind that this nation could never rest while the door to knowledge remained closed to any American.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Girl, Children, Pain

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Political, Principles, Genius
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.6, Best Books on

Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Vices, Affair, Virtue

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Country, Hate, Mind
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.669, Best Books on

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Communication, Thinking, Errors

This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Life, Men, Society
Address accepting Democratic presidential nomination, Atlantic City, N.J., 27 Aug. 1964

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Powerful, Moving, Opportunity
Speech at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 22 May 1964

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Believe, Patriotic, Destiny
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.765, Best Books on

The time has come when we cannot be so careless. Unless we do better, we may suffer through a stark emergency of the environment. We may create a hostile world: a world to bruise ourselves against; a world of sprawling cities, unplanned or badly planned; a world whose water is full of sludge, whose winds are full of soot; a world whose landscape has been totally neglected, stripped, marred, and wasted. All of this need not happen if we choose well, and particularly if we plan well and if we act well.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Wind, Cities, Water

There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny or for the service of freedom

Lyndon B. Johnson
Lying, Space, Important

My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country--instead of dying for it.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Country, Prayer, Boys
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.417, Best Books on

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

Lyndon B. Johnson
War, History, Political

The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Men, Cities, House
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.240, Best Books on

You know there is no one in the world I would rather sleep with than Yuki.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Friendship, Dog, Sleep

Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: "God has favored our undertaking." God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Latin, Pyramids, America
Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

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

Lyndon B. Johnson
President, Lasts, Wartime

You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Learning, Presidential, Inspirational Presidential

This Congress did more to uplift education, more to attack disease in this country and around the world, and more to conquer poverty than any other session in all American history, and what more worthy achievements could any person want to have? For it was the Congress that was more true than any other Congress to Thomas Jefferson's belief that: 'The care of human life and happiness is the first and only legitimate objective of good Government.'

Lyndon B. Johnson
Uplifting, Education, Country