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

- 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 wi…

- David Mccullough

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

- David Mccullough

We are all what we are, in large degree, because of others who have helped, coached, taught, counseled, who set a standard by example, who've taken a…

- David Mccullough

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, …

- David Mccullough

When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They mean…

- David Mccullough

I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some…

- 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 ca…

- David Mccullough

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

- David Mccullough