David McCullough

First of all, you can make the argument that there’s no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

David McCullough

For a free, self-governing people, something more than a vague familiarity with history is essential, if we are to hold on to and sustain our freedom.

David McCullough

He had kept his head, kept his health and his strength, bearing up under a weight of work and worry that only a few could have carried.

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

How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don’t know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?

David McCullough

However little television you watch, watch less.

David McCullough

I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.

David McCullough

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

I have endeavored to bring them down to the level of all other diseases of the human body, and to show that the mind and body are moved by the same causes and subject to the same laws.

David McCullough

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

David McCullough