“ To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is… David McCullough
“ The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write. David McCullough
“ To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is… 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
“ As the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established David McCullough
“ Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.", July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4) David McCullough
“ Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book. David McCullough
“ The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams' character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that… David McCullough
“ 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 these words, My bursting heart must find vent at my pen. David McCullough
“ Adams was both a devout Christian and an independent thinker, and he saw no conflict in that. David McCullough
“ My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the Uni… David McCullough
“ If I were giving a young man advice as to how he might succeed in life, I would say to him, pick out a good father and mother, and begin life in Ohio. WILBUR WRIGHT David McCullough
“ I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene David McCullough
