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
war winning progress
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.
war hero thinking
In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.
war winning knows
We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace...
mistake war vietnam
The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.
war made century
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
jobs war kids
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.
war hydrogen-bomb optimism
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
war winning immigration
Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
war fighting boys
When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.
war people achievement
D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point of the 20th century. It was the day on which the decision was made as to who was going to rule in this world in the second half of the 20th century. Is it going to be Nazism, is it going to be communism, or are the democracies going to prevail?
good man
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.
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The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
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Nearly every artifact has a story connected to it, whether it be a hole in a helmet or a belt that a medic carried around with him as he treated the wounded on the beach.
Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.