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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Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.
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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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Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.
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The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.
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The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
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Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.
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Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.
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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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Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
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We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.
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World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
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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.
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Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
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I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.