Famous quotes containing the words lyndon baines johnson, baines johnson, lyndon baines, lyndon, baines and/or johnson:
“If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“No slogan of democracy; no battle cry of freedom is more striving then the American parent’s simple statement which all of you have heard many times: ‘I want my child to go to college.’”
—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)
“I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)