Jon Meacham Quotes

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.

I've Been Accused Of Being Old Before My Time More Than Once. It's True That I've Always Felt An Affinity For, And Been Comfortable Around, Older People. I Attribute This To A Childhood Spent Around My Grandparents - And Even A Great-grandparent Or Two. I Wouldn't Trade Those Experiences For Anything.

Without Education, We Are Weaker Economically. Without Economic Power, We Are Weaker In Terms Of National Security. No Great Military Power Has Ever Remained So Without Great Economic Power.

If Heaven Is Understood More As God's Space On Earth Than As An Ethereal Region Apart From The Essential Reality We Know, Then What Happens On Earth Matters Even More Than We Think, For The Christian Life Becomes A Continuation Of The Unfolding Work Of Jesus, Who Will One Day Return To Set The World To Rights.

Anyone Weighing Whether To Re-elect The President Should Take The Bin Laden Operation Into Account: It Is A Powerful Exhibit That Obama Is A Steely Commander In Chief - A Critical Test For Many Americans.

From Jefferson To Jackson To Lincoln To Fdr To Reagan, Every Great President Inspires Enormous Affection And Enormous Hostility. We'll All Be Much Saner, I Think, If We Remember That History Is Full Of Surprises And Things That Seemed Absolutely Certain One Day Are Often Unimaginable The Next.

We Chose The Most Interesting Image Available To Us To Illustrate The Theme Of The Cover, Which Is What We Always Try To Do. We Apply The Same Test To Photographs Of Any Public Figure, Male Or Female: Does The Image Convey What We Are Saying? That Is A Gender-neutral Standard.

Given That Sexual Orientation Is Innate And That We Are All, In Theological Terms, Children Of God, To Deny Access To Some Sacraments Based On Sexuality Is As Wrong As Denying Access To Some Sacraments Based On Race Or Gender.

In The Closed Circle Of The War Cabinet, Pounded By Terrible Report After Terrible Report, There Had Been Uncertainty About Whether He Could Fend Off The Drift To Exploring A Deal With Hitler. The Determination Of The Larger Group Trumped The Tentativeness Of The Smaller, And Churchill Fulfilled His Role As Leader By Disentangling Himself From Defeatism--one Of His Singular Achievements At The End Of May 1940.

In Rich And Captivating Prose, Jessica Dulong Kindly Invites The Rest Of Us On The Journey Of Her Lifetime: From A Dot-com Job To The Fabled Waters Of The Hudson River, Where She Became A Fireboat Engineer. This Is An Unusual And Fascinating Book.

Here Is A Pretty Good Rule Of Thumb For Democratic Presidents: If It Didn't Work For Franklin D. Roosevelt, Who Won Four Terms And A World War, It Probably Won't Work For You Either.

History Tells Us That America Does Best When The Private Sector Is Energetic And Entrepreneurial And The Government Is Attentive And Engaged. Who Among Us, Really, Would, Looking Back, Wish To Edit Out Either Sphere At The Entire Expense Of The Other?