The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.
("John Adams")
More Quotes from David McCullough:
I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.David McCullough
I came across a lot of material I wanted to use for the Adams book and wasn't able to,
David McCullough
The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.
David McCullough
Fortunately, Washington chose not to see it that way, and he did what you sometimes do when all hope is gone. He decided to attack.
David McCullough
Every line from you exhilarates my spirits and gives me a glow of pleasure, but your kind congratulations are solid comfort to my heart. The little strength of mind and the considerable strenght of body that I once possessed appear to be all gone, but while I breathe I shall be your friend.
David McCullough
I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.
David McCullough
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