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 we are and how we came to be the way we are. David McCullough More Quotes by David McCullough More Quotes From David McCullough You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. David McCullough participants democracy knows We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system. David McCullough library school thinking Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world." Winston Churchill Christmas Eve Message, 1941 as printed in "In the Dark Streets Shineth. David McCullough laughter christmas children Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries. David McCullough portal library democracy The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind. David McCullough titles hard-work mind I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber. David McCullough marijuana weed writing I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down. David McCullough madness today book The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any great things are accomplished, he wrote to a correspondent, a memorable change must be made in the system of education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher. The education of a nation instead of being confined to a few schools and universities for the instruction of the few, must become the national care and expense for the formation of the many. David McCullough memorable country school With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that. David McCullough europe war book There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans David McCullough earth spirit people They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice. David McCullough determined men death I've always been dissatisfied, I know that. But lately I find that I reek of discontentment. It fills my throat, and it floods my brain. And sometimes I fear there is no longer a dream, but only the discontentment. David McCullough dream brain sometimes It would be the most crucial day of the entire war. David McCullough would-be war history To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. David McCullough sacred noble honor ...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out. David McCullough leader men ideas 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 United States of America. David McCullough army war book Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the educated and the uneducated in America continues to grow as it is in our time, as fast as or faster than the gap between the rich and the poor, the gap between the educated and the uneducated is going to be of greater consequence and the more serious threat to our way of life. We must not, by any means, misunderstand that. David McCullough ignorant mean america Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams David McCullough patriotism patriotic country To write is to think, and to write well is to think well. David McCullough wells writing thinking Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country actually. David McCullough addresses imagine country
