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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

David McCullough

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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Nobody ever lived in the past.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans
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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.
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History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.
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The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
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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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Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
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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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The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life, is an achievement... To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance.
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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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History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.
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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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Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.
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