"Our obligations to our country never cease but……" — David McCullough
"Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams"
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96 Quotes by David McCullough
David McCullough has 96 quotes on this site.
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There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
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Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
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Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules,…
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In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth…
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The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
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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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The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour…
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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power…
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We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The…
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Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
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John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he…
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Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a…
— Piers Anthony
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But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in…
— Michele Bachmann
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[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.
— Henry Adams
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All that I am my mother made me. - John Quincy Adams. Children and mothers never truly part...
— Charlotte Gray
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Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see…
— Elliott Erwitt
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The match will be shown on Match of the Day later this evening and if you don't want to know…
— Unknown Author
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Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.
— John Szarkowski
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When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending.…
— Arsene Wenger
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Zeus Is Dead is full of laugh-out-loud moments, lashings of sly wit, moan-worthy puns, and a complex, fast-paced storyline. There…
— Jody Lynn Nye
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I will never sit down with Gerry Adams . . . he'd sit with anyone. He'd sit down with the…
— Ian Paisley
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Us on hard drugs? That would be horrible. We'd probably end up sounding like Bryan Adams.My girlfriend has this quote…
— Thom Yorke
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