Quotes by : Jon Meacham

Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.

As much as Jefferson loved France residence abroad gave him greater appreciation for his own nation.....

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity....

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection....

A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but....

For Jefferson, William and Mary was largely about what university life is supposed to be about: reading....

He was the most contradictory of men. A champion of extending freedom and democracy to even the poorest....

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional....

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which....