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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.

David McCullough

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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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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Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
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The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
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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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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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It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
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There is a human longing to go back to other times. We all know how when we were children we asked our parents, What was it like when you were a kid? I think it probably has something to do with our survival as a species.
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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?
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There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.
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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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There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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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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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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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 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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