The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war,… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Too many activists have convinced themselves that they have a monopoly on truth. A little humility and a sense of history could… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“He dreamed big but understood that dreams become reality only when their champions are strong enough and wily enough to bend history… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged.… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody.… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“Harry Truman—the man who won the four-way 1948 presidential campaign, triumphing over the segregationist Thurmond, the Progressive candidate Henry A. Wallace, and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason. — Jon Meacham Copy Share
As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could… — Jon Meacham Copy Share
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. — Jon Meacham Copy Share
“his other hand. Sensitive to his guest’s affliction, Churchill realized that “every step” was” — Jon Meacham Copy Share
Too many activists have convinced themselves that they have a monopoly on truth. A little humility and a sense of history could move us… — Jon Meacham Copy Share
In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes. — Jon Meacham Copy Share
Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize… — Jon Meacham Copy Share
“When Lincoln was running for the House of Representatives from Illinois, he was charged with being “a scoffer at religion,” wrote the historian William… — Jon Meacham Copy Share
“The Man who has not Music in his Soul, Or is not touch’d with Concord of sweet Sounds, Is fit for Treason, Stratagems, and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share
I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children… — Jon Meacham Copy Share
Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of… — Jon Meacham Copy Share
“There was, of course, a more immediate point to frequent gatherings of lawmakers, diplomats, and cabinet officers at the president’s table. It tends to… — Jon Meacham Copy Share
“For Jefferson, William and Mary was largely about what university life is supposed to be about: reading books, enjoying the company of like-minded, and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share
One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share
