Quote by Jon Meacham
Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if

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

Other quotes by Jon Meacham

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

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Politics
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Attacks on a politicians identity – questioning Romneys religion, say, or Obamas birthplace – tend to come when an opponent is desperate and cant sell himself. – Jon Meacham

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Religion
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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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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s. – Camille Paglia

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War

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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War

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz. – Harold Pinter

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War

I ended the war a horse ahead. – Nathan Bedford Forrest

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War

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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. – Jean Cocteau

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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. – George Bernard Shaw

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Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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