Jon Meacham

“in the fears and follies of man, but on his reason.…”

— Jon Meacham

“We live in a center-right country. Now watch me smile oleaginously.”

— Jon Meacham

“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.2 —American motto suggested”

— Jon Meacham

“conceived and held up to the angry”

— Jon Meacham

“corner of the Champs-Élysées and the rue de Berri.30”

— Jon Meacham

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

— Jon Meacham

The government invented the Internet.

— Jon Meacham

“A politician's task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible account with the ideal and the principled.”

— Jon Meacham

“Always take all the time to reflect that circumstances permit, but when the time for action has come, stop thinking. (Andrew Jackson)”

— Jon Meacham

“the people are intelligent, the people are just, and in time these characteristics must have an effect on their Representatives.”

— Jon Meacham

In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so…

— Jon Meacham

“Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.”

— Jon Meacham

President Obama is now losing to 'Republican Nominee' in polls - no name needed.

— Jon Meacham

[T]o argue that something is so because it is in the Bible is more than intellectually bankrupt.

— Jon Meacham

“It is error alone that needs the support of government.2 Truth can stand by itself. —THOMAS JEFFERSON, on freedom of religion”

— Jon Meacham

Anyone weighing whether to re-elect the President should take the bin Laden operation into account: it is a powerful exhibit that Obama…

— Jon Meacham

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

“He turned the presidency – and the President's House – into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and…

— Jon Meacham

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters.…

— Jon Meacham

I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle…

— Jon Meacham

“politics is brutal because it engages the most fundamental human impulses for affection, honor, power, and fame. Great principles and grand visions…

— Jon Meacham

Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody.…

— Jon Meacham

Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good…

— Jon Meacham

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then…

— Jon Meacham

In the closed circle of the war cabinet, pounded by terrible report after terrible report, there had been uncertainty about whether he…

— Jon Meacham

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…

— Jon Meacham

“I hate polemical politics and polemical divinity,” said John Adams. “My religion is founded on the love of God and my neighbor;…

— Jon Meacham

“In the wake of the British army’s burning of the roughly 3,000 books belonging to Congress at Washington, Jefferson offered to sell…

— Jon Meacham

“Jefferson’s decision to acquire Louisiana without seeking a constitutional amendment expanded the powers of the executive in ways that would likely have…

— Jon Meacham

“For Jefferson, William and Mary was largely about what university life is supposed to be about: reading books, enjoying the company of…

— Jon Meacham

It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v.…

— Jon Meacham

“When Lincoln was running for the House of Representatives from Illinois, he was charged with being “a scoffer at religion,” wrote the…

— Jon Meacham

“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

“At every significant point in the four centuries since English settlers laid the foundations for the nation we know—at every significant point—American…

— Jon Meacham

“Or, as Jackson would have said: The people, sir-the people will set things right.”

— Jon Meacham

Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.

— Jon Meacham

“Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.”

— Jon Meacham

Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior.

— Jon Meacham

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

— Jon Meacham

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

— Jon Meacham