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Lyndon B. Johnson — Portrait after a picture by Arnold Newman (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

President of the United States from 1963 to 1969

1908–1973

20 quotes, most often on America, Race and Voting. Part of the U.S. Presidents collection.

It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
On FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, as quoted in The New York Times (31 October 1971)
- Politics
Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.
Address to the nation announcing he would not seek re-election (31 March 1968)
- America
- Politics
This civil rights program about which you have heard so much is a farce and a sham; an effort to set up a police state in the guise of liberty. I am opposed to that program. I fought it in the Congress.
Speech in Austin, Texas (22 May 1948), as quoted in Quotations from Chairman LBJ (1968)
- Politics
- Race

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