Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He had previously served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963 under President John F. Kennedy, and was sworn in shortly after Kennedy’s assassination. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson also served as a U.S. representative, U.S. senator and the Senate’s majority leader. He holds the distinction of being one of the few presidents who served in all elected offices at the federal level.

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10.  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.

9. Freedom is not enough.

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

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

6. Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t fart and chew gum at the same time.

5. You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

4. There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

3. We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

2. Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. – Lyndon B. Johnson

1. Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

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My personal favorite occurred when LBJ explained to his cabinet members why he had decided to reappoint the widely unpopular J. Edgar Hoover as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation:

I’d much rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in.

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The best single source of information about LBJ is Robert Caro’s four-volume biography, available in hardbound, softbound, and Kindle editions.

Here is a direct link to biographical material provided by Wikipedia.