Quote by Jon Meacham
History tells us that America does best when the private sector is

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other? – 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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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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World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. – Jon Meacham

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History
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Government
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Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs. – Eliot Spitzer

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Government

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent. – Marco Rubio

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Government

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought. – Theresa May

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Government

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. – James Madison

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Government

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Im from the Madeleine LEngle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows theres a creator whos behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it. – Tom Shadyac

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The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom. – George W. Bush

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The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody’s fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind. – Katherine Mansfield

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