Quotes by : David McCullough

When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a....

Remove yourself, sir!

The reason is, because it’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than....

One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand....

[While writing history], I've kept the most interesting company imaginable with people long gone. Some....

In an exhibition wherein paintings of nudes were commonplace, that of Madame Gautreau in her black evening....

We who are residing in a foreign country, away from the immediate scene of action, perhaps can feel more....

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society or the united power of the multitude for....

Measurements "are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be....

To his own children he was at once the ultimate voice of authority and, when time allowed, their most....