Quote by Jon Meacham
The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing. – 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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History
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Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith. – Jon Meacham

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Faith
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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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We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done. – Barbara Jordan

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Future

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much. – Joshua Chamberlain

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Future

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. – Walter Savage Landor

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Future

Americas future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live. – Jane Addams

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Future

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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. – Clarence Darrow

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The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging. – Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind. – Martha Beck

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alone

To laughter! The bright coinage of the bank of good will. – Minna Thomas Antrim, A Book of Toasts, 1902

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