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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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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

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power
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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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History
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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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Failure
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Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now. – Rick Perry

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Government

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. – H. L. Mencken

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Government

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. – Edward Gibbon

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Government

Governments first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. – Ronald Reagan

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Government

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The only thing we never get enough of is love and the only thing we never give enough of is love. – Henry Miller

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Love

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat. – Robert Frost

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Fathers

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think whats new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world. – Gordon Brown

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Faith

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office a Republican wants. – Alben W. Barkley

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Bureaucracy