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
“Always take all the time to reflect that circumstances permit, but when the time for action has come, stop thinking. (Andrew Jackson)” — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“the people are intelligent, the people are just, and in time these characteristics must have an effect on their Representatives.” — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“the ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, that we must be contented to secure what we can get from… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of… — 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
“Rendering moral judgements in retrospect can be hazardous. It is unfair to judge the past by the standards of the present. Yet… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
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… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“They all live in cities, together, and can act in a body readily and at all times; they give chief employment to… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“There is usually a moment in the life of a new president when he begins to see himself not as an aspirant… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“To be tall and forbidding might command respect for a time, but not affection. To be overly familiar might command affection for… — 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
