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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting, theater, dance, all of it. The great thing about the arts is that the only way you learn how to do it is by doing it.
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I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
David McCullough
Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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I feel that what I do is a calling. I would pay to do what I do if I had to. I will never live long enough to do the work I want to do: the books I would like to write, the ideas I would like to explore.
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When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
David McCullough
The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.
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The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life, is an achievement... To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance.
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The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
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It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
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The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
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Home is really where education does begin.
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If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.
David McCullough
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
David McCullough
In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation.
David McCullough
If the attitude of the teacher toward the material is positive, enthusiastic, committed and excited, the students get that. If the teacher is bored, students get that and they get bored, quickly, instinctively.
David McCullough
History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.
David McCullough
There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
David McCullough
You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
David McCullough
Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
David McCullough
Nobody ever lived in the past.
David McCullough
