Quote by Jon Meacham
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The attacks of September 11 – and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas – embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others. – Jon Meacham

Other quotes by Jon Meacham

In America, now, let us – Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever – fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love ones enemies. A tall order, that – perhaps the tallest of all. – Jon Meacham

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

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History
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Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didnt work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably wont work for you either. – Jon Meacham

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War
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power
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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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power

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully. – Charles Evans Hughes

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power

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have. – Andrew Young

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power

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe its simply because I wasnt that committed to geometry. – Twyla Tharp

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power

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The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks. – G. K. Chesterton

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Ive been lucky. Ive made films that I really like. Its been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. Ive gone after lots of things that I didnt get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, youre lucky if you get anything. – Hope Davis

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The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we havent gotten there yet. – James Earl Jones

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Im not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel. – Joan Didion

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