Jon Meacham

The government invented the Internet. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#internet #invented

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

— Jon Meacham

#becoming #class #great #great achievements #history

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

— Jon Meacham

#america #becoming #country #gap #last

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

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. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#constitutional #constitutional amendment #extreme #failure #fuel

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. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#harder #honorable #more #oneself #path

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. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#comes #faction #human #impulse #intrinsic

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

— Jon Meacham

#common-sense #enact #even #failed #gun

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. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#economic power #economically #education #ever #great

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