David McCullough

To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

David McCullough

To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

David McCullough

You can’t learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can’t learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can’t learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.

David McCullough

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

David McCullough

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket. You will never have an idle hour.

David McCullough

You won’t get fired if you do something, you will if you don’t do anything. Do something if it is wrong, for you can correct that, but there is no way to correct nothing.

David McCullough

Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you’ve ideally and more times than not you’ve come out with a love of learning and that’s what matters above all.

David McCullough