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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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My strong feeling is that we must learn more about how we learn. I'm convinced that we learn by struggling to find the solution to a problem on our own with some guidance, but getting in and getting our hands dirty and working it.
David McCullough
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.
David McCullough
Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
David McCullough
It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
David McCullough
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
David McCullough
Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
David McCullough
My wife, the star I steer by.
David McCullough
You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them. (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)
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How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?
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I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
David McCullough
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.
David McCullough
There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do feel in my heart of hearts that if history isn't well written, it isn't going to be read, and if it isn't read it's going to die.
David McCullough
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
May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
David McCullough
I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
David McCullough
Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.
David McCullough
People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.
David McCullough
To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
David McCullough
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.
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