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History is everything that has ever happened.
— Stephen Ambrose
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
— Stephen Ambrose
Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.
— Stephen Ambrose
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.
— Stephen Ambrose
It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one.
— Stephen Ambrose
American corporations hate to give away money.
— Stephen Ambrose
History of the United States in the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson,
— Stephen E. Ambrose
Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.
— Stephen Ambrose
The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.
— Stephen Ambrose
I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.
— Stephen Ambrose
The Enlightenment taught that observation unrecorded was knowledge lost.
— Stephen E. Ambrose
1939 New York World's Fair,
— Stephen E. Ambrose
I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
— Stephen Ambrose
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
— Stephen Ambrose
You can manufacture weapons, and you can purchase ammunition, but you can't buy valor and you can't pull heroes off an assembly line.
— Stephen E. Ambrose
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.
— Stephen Ambrose
Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.
— Stephen Ambrose
To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.
— Stephen Ambrose
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?
— Stephen Ambrose
Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.
— Stephen Ambrose
In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.
— Stephen Ambrose
The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.
— Stephen Ambrose
Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert.
— Stephen Ambrose
It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
— Stephen Ambrose
In the morning, fog. As it slowly lifted, the expedition set off.
— Stephen E. Ambrose
British and Free French in the Mediterranean were fighting to retain their colonial empires. Roosevelt said he hoped to
— Stephen E. Ambrose
Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.
— Stephen Ambrose
The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.
— Stephen Ambrose
We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace ...
— Stephen E. Ambrose
Failure at one point could throw the momentum out of balance and result in chaos. All in that room were aware
— Stephen E. Ambrose
My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.
— Stephen Ambrose
McGovern had other problems as well, personal ones with his
— Stephen E. Ambrose
I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
— Stephen Ambrose
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
— Stephen E. Ambrose
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.
— Stephen Ambrose
Nor did the Americans find it necessary to wage a ruthless campaign. As has been mentioned previously, both sides respected
— Stephen E. Ambrose
In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
— Stephen Ambrose
Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.
— Stephen Ambrose
As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils I will believe it a good comfortable road untill I am conpelled to beleive differently.
— Stephen E. Ambrose
The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.
— Stephen Ambrose
Plan your work and work your plan""where there is a will, there is a way — Stephen E. Ambrose
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?
— Stephen Ambrose
It all happened," Lipton summed up, "because Shifty saw a tree almost a mile away that hadn't been there the day before.
— Stephen E. Ambrose
My first book was the book that changed my life.
— Stephen Ambrose
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
— Stephen Ambrose
No wrong will ever be done you by our nation."3
— Stephen E. Ambrose
Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
— Stephen Ambrose
We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.
— Stephen Ambrose
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
— Stephen Ambrose
If you want to be a hero, the Germans will make one out of you real quick - dead!
— Stephen E. Ambrose
Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously.
— Stephen E. Ambrose
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
— Stephen E. Ambrose
As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
— Stephen Ambrose
American is the first democratic nation-state.
— Stephen Ambrose
Over the next two months Eisenhower labored
— Stephen E. Ambrose
Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
— Stephen Ambrose
You lead by fear or you lead by example. We were being led by fear.
— Stephen E. Ambrose
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose;
— Pete Blaber
I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
— Stephen Ambrose
Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
— Stephen Ambrose
Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.
— Stephen Ambrose
The German today is like the June Bride. He knows he is going to get it, but he doesn't know how big it is going to be.
— Stephen E. Ambrose
Thus the total armada amounted to 5,333 ships and craft of all types,
— Stephen E. Ambrose
The Natchez Trace seemed much safer to him than risking a sailboat from New Orleans to Washington,
— Stephen E. Ambrose
Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
— Stephen Ambrose
you liked him so much you just hated to let him down." He was, and is, all but worshiped by the men of E Company.
— Stephen E. Ambrose
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
— Stephen Ambrose
Stuka dive-bomber and the tank.
— Stephen E. Ambrose
We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying
— Stephen E. Ambrose
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
— Stephen Ambrose
I instinctively dislike ever to uphold the conservative as opposed to the bold
— Stephen E. Ambrose
