Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Hype, History, Political

• All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't 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 isn't fair.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Texas, Iowa, People

• If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom asks more than it gives; and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  History, Giving, Democracy

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

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

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, History, Political

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