Quotes About Jon Meacham

Well," Bush answered, "I'm worried that sometimes your idealism will get in the way of what I think is sound governance.

The question was no longer slavery, but white supremacy, which Pollard described as the "true cause of the war" and the "true hope of the South.

The day is dark and gloomy, unsettled and uncertain, like the condition of our country, in regard to the unnatural war with Mexico

Sometimes I am afraid to go to sleep for fear that I will wake up and our democracy will be gone and never return.

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful, a tooth, as indolence

With a chuckle, Churchill had replied: "Neither look for nor expect gratitude but rather get whatever comfort you can out of the belief that your effort is constructive in purpose.

The denial of the popular will, Jefferson said privately, "opens upon us an abyss at which every sincere patriot must shudder."15

Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched," he wrote in 1816.40

Bush 41 was the only Republican around who knew that anything that consistently defies arithmetic can't work for very long.

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

I'm impressed with how 'Newsweek's' outstanding staff has continued to put out a lively, well-informed magazine after the departure of their tireless editor, Jon Meacham.

At Newsweek I worked for Jon Meacham, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Andrew Jackson. Here I work for a guy who brings a teddy bear to work and considers it a management innovation.