Books Quote by David McCullough

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

“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

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

“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

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

Nobody ever lived in the past.

— David McCullough

“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

“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

“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

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

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

— David McCullough

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

— David McCullough