Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Freedom is not enough.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

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.

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

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.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'