David McCullough Quotes

“The author perceptively outlines what might be an underrated aspect of his subject and of many others whose public achievements are of note – a "gift for friendship". McCullough says Adams, despite his towering intellect and curmudgeonly demeanor, had a soft heart for other people and a genuine interest in their particulars.”

“Remove yourself, sir!”

“The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.”

“Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.”

“No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.”

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

“The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.”