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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

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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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.
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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
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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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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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I'm absolutely positive it's in our human nature to want to know about the past. The two most popular movies of all time, while not historically accurate, are about core historic events: 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Titanic.'
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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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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
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Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.
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We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's no problem about enlisting their interest in history. None. The problem is the teachers so often have no history in their background.
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I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.
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Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.
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My wife, the star I steer by.
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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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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 want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons, including the absence of photographs, we tend to see the men and women of the Revolution as not quite real. And we have far too little sense of what they suffered.
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Nobody ever lived in the past.
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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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A leader must look and act the part.
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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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