"History is a guide to navigation in perilous……" — David McCullough

"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."

— David McCullough

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96 Quotes by David McCullough

David McCullough has 96 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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,…
In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth…
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…
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…
We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The…
Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let… — Pietro Aretino
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. — Jane Austen
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. — Douglas Adams
I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them.… — Drew Barrymore
If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing… — Halle Berry
As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let… — Buffalo Bill
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold. — Louis D. Brandeis
You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern… — Jeff Bridges
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the… — Joseph Brodsky
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. — Les Brown
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the… — John Burroughs
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he… — Samuel Butler

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