Logo
Quote by Jon Meacham
The traditional religious rights failure to restore public-school

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

Other quotes by Jon Meacham

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much. – Jon Meacham

Category:
History
Author
Jon Meacham
Read Quote

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

Category:
History
Author
Jon Meacham
Read Quote

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

Category:
Government
Author
Jon Meacham
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Failure
category

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down. – Mary Pickford

Category:
Failure

In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option. – Zbigniew Brzezinski

Category:
Failure

Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of governments failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place. – Russell Pearce

Category:
Failure

We are all failures — at least, all the best of us are. – James Barrie

Category:
Failure

Random Quotes

We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way. – Ibrahim Rugova

Category:
legal

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross. – Shawn Wayans

Category:
Humor

Common sense tells us that the governments attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy. – Sarah Palin

Category:
Government

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Category:
Religion