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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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David Gaub McCullough
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Since September 11, it seems to me that never in our lifetime, except possibly in the early stages of World War II, has it been clearer that we have as a source of strength, a source of direction, a source of inspiration - our story.
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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
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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.
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
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The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
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You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.
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First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
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I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
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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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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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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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I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
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I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we came to be the way we are.
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Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
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We all know the old expression, I'll work my thoughts out on paper. There's something about the pen that focuses the brain in a way that nothing else does. That is why we must have more writing in the schools, more writing in all subjects, not just in English classes.
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The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability.
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Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
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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.
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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
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