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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Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.
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To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese raising their young in the backwaters . . . eddies and twists and turns for canoeists . . . and fishing opportunities such as Lewis and Clark enjoyed . . . would be the finest possible tribute to the men of the Expedition, and a priceless gift for our children.
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We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace...
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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.
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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.