Stephen Ambrose Quotes

American - Historian | January 10, 1936 - October 13, 2002

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

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The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

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Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.

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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.

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Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

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Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

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The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

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Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

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You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

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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.

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There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

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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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