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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


#depression #ended #great #great depression #history

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


#compact #first #fundamental #government #larger

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.


Jon Meacham


#believers #calmer #christian #creates #decline

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.


Jon Meacham


#america #been #fact #government #her

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


#forget #golden #greatness #history #march

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.


Jon Meacham


#american #american life #belief #capacity #competing

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.


Jon Meacham


#believes #best #counterproductive #demands #economics

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


#afforded #brutally #day #does #ever

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.


George H. Mead


#before #blocked #cautious #delicacy #entrance

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.


George H. Mead


#multiple #normal #personality #sense






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