Men Quotes by David McCullough

9 Men quotes by David McCullough

David McCullough offers nine concise, historically grounded observations about men, drawing from his narrative expertise. The brief statements provide a quick, scholarly glimpse into his view of male roles over time.

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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.

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I think it's important to remember that these men are not perfect. If they were marble gods, what they did wouldn't be…

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...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry…

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Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

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With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington.…

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I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable…

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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…

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I want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons,…

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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…

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“Even mighty states and kingdoms are not exempted. If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings and spreading…

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Nobody ever lived in the past.

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“Only TR openly declared his love for the job. “Nobody ever enjoyed the presidency as I did,” he boasted, and by all evidence that…

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“s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under…

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“a people may let a King fall, yet still remain a people, but if a King let his people slip from him, he is…

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Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of…

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“He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool,”

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“Nothing happens in isolation. Everything that happens has consequences. We”

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America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal…

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My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it…

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“Seen under the microscope, Stegomyia is a creature of striking beauty. Its general color is dark gray, but the thorax is marked with a…

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