Quote by Jon Meacham
From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. Well all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next. – 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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Failure
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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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Education
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If a person is homosexual by nature – that is, if ones sexuality is as intrinsic a part of ones identity as gender or skin color – then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. – Jon Meacham

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Nature
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. – John Acton

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History

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. – Mahatma Gandhi

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History

History is politics projected into the past. – M.N. Pokrovsky

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History

Youre going to relegate my history to a month. – Morgan Freeman

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History

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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didnt betray it Id be ashamed of myself. – Noam Chomsky

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Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner its off the better. – Horatio Nelson

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I dont cook. I dont know anything about food. Ive never reviewed a restaurant. – Calvin Trillin

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Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry. – Oliver Cromwell

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