Famous quotes containing the words lyndon baines johnson, baines johnson, lyndon baines, lyndon, baines and/or johnson:
“This administration is going to be a compassionate administration. We believe in the Golden Rule of doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“The last thing I wanted to do was to be a ‘wartime’ President.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“I want to go back, like Ponce de Leon, to the Fountain.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.”
—Eugene J. McCarthy (b. 1916)
“Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the House, Members of the Senate, my fellow Americans, all I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)