Stephen Ambrose Quotes
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In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.
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Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.
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American corporations hate to give away money.
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We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace.
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Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.
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There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
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Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.
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My first book was the book that changed my life.
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In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
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I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
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Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.
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I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.
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It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.
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You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.
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It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
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American is the first democratic nation-state.
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Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.
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Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?
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The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.