Lyndon B. Johnson

“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.”

“What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.”

“One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.”

“I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.”

“There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.”

“I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.”

“To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.”

“We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.”

“The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.”

“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.”

“This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.”

“I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.”

“This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.”

“I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.”