Best David McCullough Sayings
- You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about. Attention
- Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly. Assume
- When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit… Comfortable
- People often ask me if I'm working on a book. That's not how I feel. I feel like I work in a book. It's like… Almost Like
- Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave. All
- I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live. Enjoy
- The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any great things are… Accomplished
- A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. Amnesia
- I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene Education
- In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know. Began
- 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… Attraction
- My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear… Answer
- The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I… Always Comes
- History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil,… Attainment
- With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks… Account
- My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. Its about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. Its about Washington and… America
- Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project. Book
- History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. Guide
- You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. Democracy
- The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried… All
- Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the… America
- 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… Abigail
- 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. American
- I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love. Bread
- Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book. Book
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