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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. David McCullough _ 1776

    a leader must look and act the part.
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  4. David McCullough _ 1776

    In truth, the situation was worse than they realized, and no one perceived this as clearly as Washington. Seeing things as they were, and not as he would wish them to be, was one of his salient strengths.
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  5. David McCullough _ 1776

    It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books.
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  6. David McCullough _ 1776

    There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans
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  7. David McCullough _ 1776

    The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, terrible discouragement, and fear, as they would never forget, but also of phenomenal courage and bedrock devotion to country, and that, too they would never forget.
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