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Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 37th vice president under President John F. Kennedy, assuming the office upon Kennedy's assassination. Johnson also served in both houses of the U.S. Congress, where he gained a reputation as a talented and persuasive legislator.

Quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson

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

—Lyndon B. Johnson

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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

—Lyndon B. Johnson

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

—Lyndon B. Johnson

In the long history of man, countless empires and nations have come and gone. Those which created no lasting works of art are reduced today to short footnotes in history's catalog. Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves, and to others, the inner vision which guides us as a Nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish. We in America have not always been kind to the artists and the scholars who are the creators and the keepers of our vision. Somehow, the scientists always seem to get the penthouse, while the arts and the humanities get the basement.

—Lyndon B. Johnson

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

—Lyndon B. Johnson

God help trying

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

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Freedom is not enough.

—Lyndon B. Johnson

Freedom is not enough.

—Lyndon B. Johnson