Former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham thrilled Stephen Colbert's studio audience Tuesday by proclaiming "We're at our best when we try to live up to what Jefferson wrote, that we're all created equal. And we don't build monuments to people who build walls and shut doors. We built build monuments to people -- [Cheers and applause erupt.] -- who take them down and open them, right? And patriotism and protest are the two wings that enable us to take flight."
