Quotes by David McCullough

David McCullough

…Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.

Ideas

Leader

Men

A leader must look and act the part.

Leader

Looks

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

Forget

History

Past

According to Adams, Jefferson proposed that he, Adams, do the writing [pf the Declaration of Independence], but that he declined, telling Jefferson he must do it. Why?” Jefferson asked, as Adams would recount. Reasons enough,” Adams said. What can be your reasons?” Reason first: you are a Virginian and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second: I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third: You can write ten times better than I can.

Firsts

Independence

Writing

America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.

Believe

Ignorance

Opportunity

And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.

Matter

Principles

Self

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.

America

Ignorant

Mean

Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

Book

Character

People

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

Famous Motivational

Mountain

Wisdom

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

Contagious

Ideas

Leader

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Abigail

Achievement

Addresses

Advantage

Age

Airplane

Alive

America

Argument

Army

Art

Art Is

Assuming

Attention

Attitude

Awful

Balloons

Believe

Betrayal

Bigger

Biographies

Book

Bored

Brain

Bridges

Cabbage

Casts

Century

Character

Children

Christmas

Clock

College

Companion

Congratulations

Contagious

Cost

Country

Courage

Courageous

Cradle

Creative

Culture

Curiosity

Death

Degrees

Democracy

Desire

Despair

Determination

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Quotes by David McCullough

David McCullough

…Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.

A leader must look and act the part.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.

And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.

Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

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