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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
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
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Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
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The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
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The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
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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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My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
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You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about.
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Nobody ever lived in the past.
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
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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.
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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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