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

- Lyndon B. Johnson

I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy's window, and say it smells like roses.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face…

- Lyndon B. Johnson

You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you …

- Lyndon B. Johnson

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation wil…

- Lyndon B. Johnson