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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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Historian
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
David Gaub McCullough
David G. McCullough
May
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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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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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America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.
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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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Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
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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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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.
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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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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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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)
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The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
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