America Quote by Drew Gilpin Faust

One of the major jobs of the Harvard president is to choose the deans. I've had the opportunity to choose a considerable number of…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

“As the Reverend Robert Barnwell emphasized in an address to the ladies of Charleston, "WITHOUT YOU, THIS WAR COULD NOT HAVE BEEN CARRIED ON,…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations in the…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

I have always loved animals, and as a child, I read a lot of horse books. I had a particular favorite called 'Silver Snaffles'…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

A leader has to keep saying the same things over and over again.

— Drew Gilpin Faust

I've always done more than I ever thought I would. Becoming a professor - I never would have imagined that. Writing books - I…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations.

— Drew Gilpin Faust

I never planned my career. I never planned to be president of Harvard. People would have thought I was crazy, probably, at the age…

— Drew Gilpin Faust