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Home is really where education does begin.

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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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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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We all know the old expression, I'll work my thoughts out on paper. There's something about the pen that focuses the brain in a way that nothing else does. That is why we must have more writing in the schools, more writing in all subjects, not just in English classes.
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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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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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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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Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.
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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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Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
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Since September 11, it seems to me that never in our lifetime, except possibly in the early stages of World War II, has it been clearer that we have as a source of strength, a source of direction, a source of inspiration - our story.
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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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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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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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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 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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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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Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.
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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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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 past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
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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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