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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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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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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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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)
David McCullough
Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
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
It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.
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.
David McCullough
The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
David McCullough
The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
David McCullough
The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it, the way you have a talent for public speaking or music or whatever - it shouldn't be allowed to lie dormant. It should be brought alive.
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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.
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There is a human longing to go back to other times. We all know how when we were children we asked our parents, What was it like when you were a kid? I think it probably has something to do with our survival as a species.
David McCullough
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.
David McCullough
We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.
David McCullough
You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
David McCullough
Find something to do that you love because then the work itself is always the reward not the recompense. And if you love what you're doing you probably do better at it than doing something you don't love and therefore you'll be compensated appropriately.
David McCullough
May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
David McCullough
In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.
David McCullough
Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.
David McCullough
Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
David McCullough
