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Jon Meacham Quotes

As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.

Jon Meacham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: editor
Nationality: american
Birth: May 20, 1969

Topics

Life Faith Freedom Commitment Never

Color is an intense experience on its own.

Jim Hodges

Experience Color Own Intense

I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.

Joe R. Lansdale

Bible Down Sit Used Dictionary Just

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

Joan Baez

Father First Protest Stanford Public

The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.

John L. Lewis

Tired Waiting Political Fair Right

The stereotypes really play into what kinds of companies women can get funded for.

Anita Borg

Women Play Stereotypes Kinds Get

More or less, I am always saying, 'Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.'

Jean-Luc Godard

I Am Me Saying Done More Always

I'm looking to no man walking this earth for approval of what I'm doing.

Shirley Chisholm

Man Looking Walking Doing Earth

Yeah, I probably got in too much trouble as a youth to be a politician.

Michael Kelly

Youth Too Much Trouble Politician

Even though I have bad qualities in my personal life, as an athlete, I can turn it on.

Jon Jones

Life Bad I Can Athlete Personal

My writing is about connecting ways of talking to human relationships. My purpose is to show that linguistics has something to offer in understanding and improving relationships.

Deborah Tannen

Purpose Writing Understanding Talking

A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

Bobby Bowden

Ending Better Been Would Course Won

I was born in the Land of Israel, the son of pioneers - people who tilled the land and sought no fights - who did not come to Israel to dispossess its residents.

Ariel Sharon

Son People Born Land Israel Come