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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.

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•  Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.

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• 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.

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• Whoever rises to deliver the inaugural Address of 2013 will speak to a nation in which the American Dream is under profound economic and cultural pressure. This is perhaps best measured by the state of the middle class.

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• While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing – good for our political culture.

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• Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.

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• Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.

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• We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.

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•  The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one’s virtues in a vigorous way.

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• The traditional religious right’s failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

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• The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.

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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.

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• The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America’s wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

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

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• The government invented the Internet.

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• The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.

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• The decline and fall of the modern religious right’s notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.

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• The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude.

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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.

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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.

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Jon Meacham (73)

Birth:	20th May, 1969
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Biographer, Editor, Historian, Journalist

About

Jon Ellis Meacham was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. He is an American editor, historian, biographer and journalist. He is a contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, a contributing editor to Time magazine, and a former Editor-in-Chief of Newsweek. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. He studied at Sewanee: The University of the South. He has written several books include: Franklin and Winston, American Gospel, Beyond Bin Laden, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, Thomas Jefferson: President and Philosopher, Destiny and Power, and The Soul of America.

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