Quote by Jon Meacham
The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is bec

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality. – Jon Meacham

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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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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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The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness. – Jon Meacham

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Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth. – Walter Raleigh, History of the World

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Libraries are not made, they grow. – Augustine Birrell

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Historian. A broad — gauge gossip. – Ambrose Bierce

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A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. – George S. Patton

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