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Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

David McCullough

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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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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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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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.
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There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
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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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Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.
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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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Home is really where education does begin.
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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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I don't pick my presidents because they were great presidents. I'm not much interested in ranking presidents and who is the best and who is the worst. I am much more inclined to be interested in them if they had an interesting life and if they were a complete person - and by that I mean they also had flaws and failings.
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When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
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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 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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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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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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