“From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great pre...” — Jon Meacham Quote

“From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.”

“I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the same way I look back on the middle of the 20th: as a time when seemingly respectable people supported discrimination against Americans simply because those Americans were different from themselves.”

“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.”

“Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior.”

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

“It's not that players feel no emotional bond to a team. When you've given so much of your career to a club, you can't help but feel affection towards them.”

“There is a deep affection in Australia for the Queen. And I mean the Queen's been the Queen ever since I was born. I mean she is part of the firmament of Australia's sort of national life; there's a deep respect for her role.”

“I've got huge affection for Everton. It was my life for over a decade.”

“Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.”

“In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.”

“I have the deepest respect and affection for Nicola Sturgeon.”