Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Edward Ambrosewas an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many best selling volumes of American popular history...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth10 January 1936
CityLovington, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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American is the first democratic nation-state.
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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 was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
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To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.
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Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.
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Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.
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As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
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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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The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.
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Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.
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Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
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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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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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The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.