I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“As history abundantly shows, Congress, for all its faults, has not been the unbroken parade of clowns and thieves and posturing windbags… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“If you haven't met Kenny (Young) you have not seen how the spirit of Boston can be embodied by one single man.” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do?… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction.… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Lord Bolingbroke, who was an eighteenth-century political philosopher, called history “philosophy taught with examples.” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“The study of history is an antidote to the hubris of the present – the idea that everything we have, everything we… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“It might never have happened. That’s among the most important lessons of history . . . and of life. There is so much around us… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely positive it's in our human nature to want to know about the past. The two most popular movies of all… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
You have to get inside the people you are writing about. You have to go below the surface. And that's to a… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“it seems to me that one of the truths about history that needs to be made clear to a student or to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“History isn’t just something that ought to be taught, read, or encouraged only because it will make us better citizens. It will… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Even mighty states and kingdoms are not exempted. If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“One might also say that history is not about the past. If you think about it, no one ever lived in the… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
History is not just about dates and quotations. And it's not just about politics, the military and social issues, though much of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read." ( The Course of Human Events , NEH… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his… — David McCullough Copy Share
“Steamboats by this time were becoming a familiar presence on the rivers and coastal waters of America, but not until 1838 did steam-powered ships… — David McCullough Copy Share
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… — David McCullough Copy Share
“Even mighty states and kingdoms are not exempted. If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings and spreading… — David McCullough Copy Share
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… — David McCullough Copy Share
“Only TR openly declared his love for the job. “Nobody ever enjoyed the presidency as I did,” he boasted, and by all evidence that… — David McCullough Copy Share
“s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under… — David McCullough Copy Share
“a people may let a King fall, yet still remain a people, but if a King let his people slip from him, he is… — David McCullough Copy Share
Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of… — David McCullough Copy Share
“He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool,” — David McCullough Copy Share
“Nothing happens in isolation. Everything that happens has consequences. We” — David McCullough Copy Share
America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal… — David McCullough Copy Share
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it… — David McCullough Copy Share
“Seen under the microscope, Stegomyia is a creature of striking beauty. Its general color is dark gray, but the thorax is marked with a… — David McCullough Copy Share
![“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is." [ The Title Always Comes Last ; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]” quote by David McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/03b/david-mccullough-1091_art_to-me-history-ought-to-be-a-source-of-pl_505018.jpg)
