More quotes by David McCullough

"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."
"Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book."
"To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]"