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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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

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War
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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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The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time. – Jon Meacham

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Government
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I look more to the future. Thats where my head is at. – Flavor Flav

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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state? – Alexander Pope

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The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. – Marcel Pagnol

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Im not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future. – Jennifer Aniston

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Silver threads and golden needles cannot mend this heart of mine. – Jack Rhodes & Dick Reynolds♫

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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because weve been ignorant of their value. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. – Jonathan Swift

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