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David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events

Book by David McCullough · 10 quotes · Command, Discouragement, Leader

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David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events Quotes

“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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“Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.”

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