"Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas."

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Lyndon B. Johnson

#Ideas Quotes #President Quotes #Speech Quotes

“My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly...”
“I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.”

Source : "Never mind glass ceilings, what about glass skirting boards?". Interview with Kevin Maguire, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2003.
“It's important to find a team where you can be comfortable. I know there are a lot of high expectatons.”
“Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.”
“The aspects of global warming that matter most to people - how rapidly will the seas rise? Are hurricanes already getting stronger? How strong will they get as a result of warming? Those are still immersed in complexity. So in those realms that catch people's attention most, or that get used as symbols by environmental campaigners, those facets really do come with significant back-and-forthing.”

Source : "Q&A: Andrew C. Revkin". Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2008.
“The young generation can influence their elders and can make them understand the environmental problems that are faced by us today. The youth can make them see that our environment is deteriorating day by day.”
“What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. Let muckworms who in dirty acres deal, Lament those hardships which we cannot feel, His grace who smarts, may bellow if he please, But must I bellow too, who sit at ease? By custom safe, the poets' numbers flow, Free as the light and air some years ago. No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours, and excise our brains. Burthens like these with earthly buildings bear, No tributes laid on castles in the air.”
“Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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