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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."; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]David McCullough
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Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable, " said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson.""Lake and Palmer?""Ralph and Waldo.Louise Penny
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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?George Washington
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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 musiDavid McCullough
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The state is a voluntary association of individuals designed to serve their individual interests. The state is not a faceless villain. The state is all of us. But freedom does not mean the freedom to commit violence. Violence includes direct and indirect action; i.e., it is just as violent to cause someone to starve to death by withholding aid as it is to shoot him, only sneakier.Robert Peate
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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.Alain De Botton
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The people had once created the city. The city now created the people, or, more exactly, the people of Venice now identified themselves more in terms of the city. The private had become public.Peter Ackroyd
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A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.Theodore Roosevelt
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The generation of American men who fought the Second World War were too struck by the scale of the effort — and the stakes of the effort — to see the war as a stage for their own personal heroism. Most men seem to have taken the lesson that there's enough honor in doing a hard job when you have to.Jeremy Rabkin
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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.Theodore Roosevelt
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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, "I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.Doris Kearns Goodwin