Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

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

- Lyndon B. Johnson

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

- Lyndon B. Johnson

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

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

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

- Lyndon B. Johnson