The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.
Lady Bird JohnsonRead
The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
Interpretation
The expression of differing ideas represents the essence of a free society.
This quote by Lady Bird Johnson suggests that the exchange and debate of varying ideas is fundamental to the concept of freedom. It highlights how differing viewpoints contribute to a vibrant democratic society, where individuals can express themselves and challenge one another, ultimately fostering growth and understanding.
In practice
In a discussion on the importance of free speech at a community forum.
The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!
Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is that, when there is a choice, the milder drink is always the better-not merely the safer but the better. The second is that no really enlightened drinker ever takes a drink at a time when he has any work to do. There is, of course, more to it than this; but these are sufficient for the beginner, and even the virtuoso never outgrows them.
The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.
The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity β even under the most difficult circumstances β to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces - a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.