Jon Meacham Quotes

Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.
Jon Meacham

Greatness, Republican, Reagan

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
Jon Meacham

Faith, History, Doubt

Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason.
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Light, Reason, Tradition

The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much.
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Long, May, Before

The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.
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Political, Free, American

The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.
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Power, Human, Others

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.
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Time, Government, Accept

The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.
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Life, Help, Political

The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.
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History, War, Government

The government invented the Internet.
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Government, Internet, Invented

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
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Great, History, Reality

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.
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Political, Country, America

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.
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History, Forget, Past

The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.
Jon Meacham

Life, Power, American

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.
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Failure, School, Prayer

The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.
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Political, Path, Put

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.
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Human, Living, Universe

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.
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America, Why, Gun

Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.
Jon Meacham

Life, Religion, Politics

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.
Jon Meacham

Faith, Politics, Good

Whoever rises to deliver the inaugural Address of 2013 will speak to a nation in which the American Dream is under profound economic and cultural pressure. This is perhaps best measured by the state of the middle class.
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Best, Dream, American

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.
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Time, History, Matter

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
Jon Meacham

Great, History, War

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Nationality: American

Type: Editor

Born: May 20, 1969

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