David McCullough

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene ↗

— David McCullough

#education

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

— David McCullough

#history #navigation #perilous #times #way

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard." (Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4) ↗

— David McCullough

#creative-process #precision #thinking #thought #writing

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams ↗

— David McCullough

#patriotism #political #service #service

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. ↗

— David McCullough

#full #history #know #our #participant

When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen. ↗

— David McCullough

#historical #inspirational #literary #women #inspirational

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History) ↗

— David McCullough

#history #biography

You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition." Spoken by Abigail Adams ↗

— David McCullough

#humor

Remove yourself, sir! ↗

— David McCullough

#david-mccullough #funny #history #john-adams #funny

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

— David McCullough

#government #john-adams #liberty #mccullough #politics-freedom-liberty