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"The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord."

Jon Meacham on Marriage

More quotes about Marriage

  • "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

    Mignon McLaughlin on Marriage

  • "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."

    Socrates on Marriage

  • "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

    Friedrich Nietzsche on Marriage

  • "How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

    Oscar Wilde on Marriage

  • "Don't marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you can't live without."

    James C. Dobson on Marriage

More quotes by Jon Meacham

  • "A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play."

  • "Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard."

  • "I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived."

  • "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."

  • "Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard."

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