Famous quotes containing the words lyndon baines johnson, baines johnson, lyndon baines, lyndon, baines and/or johnson:
“Thats just the trouble, Sam Houstonits always my move. And damnit, I sometimes cant tell whether Im making the right move or not. Now take this Vietnam mess. How in the hell can anyone know for sure whats right and whats wrong, Sam?”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (19081973)
“All the historians are Harvard people. It just isnt fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd; nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isnt fair.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (19081973)
“Im not in the speechmaking business nowadays. Im following the advice of an old mountain woman who said: When I walks, I walk slowly. When I sits, I sits loosely. And when I feel a worry coming on, I just go to sleep.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (19081973)
“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)
“Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, Im going to Viet Nams aid!”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (19081973)
“The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)