Stephen Ambrose Quotes
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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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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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The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
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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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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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My first book was the book that changed my life.
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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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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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Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?
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There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
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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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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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In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.
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It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
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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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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.