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David McCullough Quotes

American - Historian | July 7, 1933 -

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

David McCullough

History Democracy You Know Full Our

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.

David McCullough

Time Writing Start You Find Know

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 Why Way Guide Navigation

I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.

David McCullough

Work Writing Trying Weed Hard Out

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

David McCullough

Nature History Luck Human Nature Why

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

David McCullough

Men Wise Wise Men Roof Honest May

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

David McCullough

Work Love Success Finding You Real

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.

David McCullough

Focus War Book Revolution Army Year

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

David McCullough

Education Stars Father Mother Lucky

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

David McCullough

Past Better Nation Individual Than

With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that.

David McCullough

War World Book Finding Look Follow

When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair.

David McCullough

People Me Chair Long Philadelphia

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