Books Quote by Jon Meacham

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

— Jon Meacham

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

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

“his other hand. Sensitive to his guest’s affliction, Churchill realized that “every step” was”

— Jon Meacham

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

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

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

“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

“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

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

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

“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