Stephen Ambrose Quotes
When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.
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Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?
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There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.
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The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
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When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.
