David McCullough Quotes

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• There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
• Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
• Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to…
• 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.
• The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
• Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
• The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.
• They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
• To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
• ...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.
• We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for…
• Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
• Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can…
• Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.
• Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone…
• 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…
• It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the…
• Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
• The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
• 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…

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