David McCullough Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by David McCullough
David McCullough Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think ... Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.
If you haven't met Kenny (Young) you have not seen how the spirit of Boston can be embodied by one single man.
He was also a vociferous champion of abstinence from hard or spirituous liquors - but then no one's perfect. In
You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen, Adams
When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries.
Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.
Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
For a free, self-governing people, something more than a vague familiarity with history is essential, if we are to hold on to and sustain our freedom.
Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.
I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.
He held to the old guidelines: work hard, do your best, speak the truth, assume no airs, trust in God, have no fear.
Because it's of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished.
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.
My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.
A man who has not better government of his tongue, no more command of his temper, is unfit for everything but children's play and the company of boys.
The clock would be simple if you destroyed all the wheels . . . but it would not tell the time of day. On
The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?
The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.
I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
It is in Paris that the beating of Europe's heart is felt. Paris is the city of cities. - Victor Hugo
Among those who were about to stake so very much on him and his bridge, or who already had, there was not one who could honestly say he knew the man.
It is always easier to deal with things than with men, and no one can direct his life entirely as he would choose. -Wilbur Wright, 1911
We live, my dear soul, in an age of trial. What will be the consequence I know not. John Adams, in a letter to Abigail Adams
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
Sometimes the very struggle of getting the words down on paper does result in unexpected discoveries or clarifications.
Everybody wants something at the expense of everybody else and nobody thinks much of the other fellow," Truman
Wright died in his room at home at 7 Hawthorn Street at 3:15 in the morning, Thursday, May 30, 1912. He was forty-five years old.
The title did not make the man, of course, but it enhanced the standing of the man in the eyes of others.
Integrity should be preserved in all events, as essential to his happiness, through every stage of his existence.
The experience at Suez was little help. Probably they would have been better off in the long run had there been no Suez Canal in their past.
Lord Bolingbroke, who was an eighteenth-century political philosopher, called history "philosophy taught with examples.
It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books.
In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation.
Once rolling the train would travel under the code name "POTUS," for "President of the United States,