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  1. David McCullough _ John Adams

    Remember all men would be tyrants if they could - from a poem by Daniel Defoe, as written by Abigail to John Adams
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  2. David McCullough _ Brave Companions: Portraits in

    The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
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  3. David McCullough _ The Wright Brothers

    Not incidentally, the Langley project had cost nearly $70,000, the greater part of it public money, whereas the brothers' total expenses for everything from 1900 to 1903, including materials and travel to and from Kitty Hawk, came to a little less than $1,000, a sum paid entirely from the modest profits of their bicycle business.
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  4. David McCullough _ John Adams

    As time would prove, he had written one of the great, enduring documents of the American Revolution. The constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the oldest functioning written constitution in the world.
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  5. David McCullough _ 1776

    as the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established
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  6. David McCullough _ John Adams

    Adams was both a devout Christian and an independent thinker, and he saw no conflict in that.
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  7. David McCullough _ 1776

    I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
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  8. David McCullough _ 1776

    a leader must look and act the part.
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  9. David McCullough _ John Adams

    The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any great things are accomplished, he wrote to a correspondent, a memorable change must be made in the system of education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher. The education of a nation instead of being confined to a few schools and universities for the instruction of the few, must become the national care and expense for the formation of the many.
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  10. David McCullough _ The Wright Brothers

    The man who wishes to keep at the problem long enough to really learn anything positively must not take dangerous risks. Carelessness and overconfidence are usually more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks.
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  11. David McCullough _ John Adams

    I've always been dissatisfied, I know that. But lately I find that I reek of discontentment. It fills my throat, and it floods my brain. And sometimes I fear there is no longer a dream, but only the discontentment.
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  12. David McCullough _ John Adams

    Remove yourself, sir!
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