David McCullough Quotes About History
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Housetops were covered with 'gazers'; all wharves that offered a view were jammed with people ... As British officers happily reminded one another, it was the largest fleet ever seen in American waters. In fact it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century, the largest, most powerful force ever sent forth by Britain or any other nation.
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A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
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Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.
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No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
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It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
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