Stephen Ambrose Quotes

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

Stephen Ambrose

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• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Art
  • War
  • Enemy

• War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • War
  • Man
  • Desire

• I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • House
  • Fall
  • See

• I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Mind
  • May
  • War

• We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent efforts by all countries and peoples. A nuclear war would affect everyone, and all have a stake in preventing this nightmare.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • War
  • Risk

• What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by doing so, introduce into our defense vulnerabilities based on self-delusion.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Future
  • Problem

• There is a clear interest within ISIS to drag Israel into a war with them. If they do so, they will be able to paint Israel as having an alliance with the states fighting against them.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • War
  • Fighting
  • Israel

• Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • War
  • Here
  • Combination

• I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • War
  • Christian
  • Woman

• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • War
  • Purpose

• I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • War
  • King
  • Vietnam War

• 'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Heart
  • May
  • War

• Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • World
  • War
  • Running

• American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Different
  • Why

• The costly unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency led to a decade of war in the Middle East and the derailment of American foreign policy at large.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • American
  • War
  • Middle

• I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Business

• Countries at war lived in a state of perpetual fear.

  

  Kameron Hurley
  • War
  • Fear

• In 'War Party,' I play a quarter-breed Indian. It's a serious movie, but it's funny, too.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • War
  • Movie
  • Funny

• TYou know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super realistic. And when that happens, everything that seemed so sweet and lovable about them begins to look ordinary and depressing.

  

  Haruki Murakami

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• I will be master of what is mine own: She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • House
  • Marriage
  • Horse

• I think 'Historian' is ultimately a positive record, but I was a little bit worried about taking people into a dark world. I tried to do it with as much care as possible, but it's not easy to ask people to think about death or loss or confusion.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • World
  • Death

• The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • War
  • Century