Thursday, July 12, 2007

Quotes from Lady Bird Johnson

The following quotes come from the mind of Claudia Taylor (Lady Bird) Johnson:

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.

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