David McCullough Quotes - Page 7

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• The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.

  David McCullough

  Hard Work, Mind, Titles

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be "cool but determined" he had told the men before the battle, when spirits were high. Now, in the face of catastrophe, he was demonstrating what he meant by his own example. Whatever anger or torment or despair he felt, he kept to himself.

  David McCullough

  Men, Presence Of Mind, Despair

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• To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

  David McCullough

  Honor, Noble, Sacred

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.556, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.

  David McCullough

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• You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.

  David McCullough

  Argument, Abigail, Erudition

  "John Adams' Legacy Revisited in HBO Series". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. April 15, 2008.

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