Quote by Jon Meacham
The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when gove

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

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

Category:
Faith
Read Quote

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country. – Jon Meacham

Category:
Politics
Read Quote

The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life. – Jon Meacham

Category:
power
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Government
category

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up. – Jim DeMint

Category:
Government

The happiest thing that can be said about democracy… is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility. – H.A. Overstreet

Category:
Government

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated. – Chief Joseph

Category:
Government

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined. – Mitt Romney

Category:
Government

Random Quotes

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted. – Luke Ford

Category:
Religion

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. – George Bernard Shaw

Category:
Jealousy

Just going on the road and entertaining the fans, thats amazing. – Jordan Knight

Category:
amazing

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination. – Tim Berners Lee

Category:
Imagination