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The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of g

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time. – Jon Meacham

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Part of what I loved – and love – about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. Im interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. Im interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books. – Jon Meacham

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The traditional religious rights failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school. – Jon Meacham

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Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power. – Jon Meacham

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The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point. – Jon Meacham

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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. – Will Durant

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But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government. – James Q. Wilson

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Im tired of hearing it said that democracy doesnt work. Of course it doesnt work. We are supposed to work it. – Alexander Woollcott

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A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said “Mate!” in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious. – A.A. Milne, Not That It Matters, 1919

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I dont know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change. – Nicholas Sparks

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If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. РFran̤ois VI de la Rochefoucault

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