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The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.
Stephen Ambrose
History is everything that has ever happened.
Stephen Ambrose
Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.
Stephen Ambrose
In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
Stephen Ambrose
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.
Stephen Ambrose
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.
Stephen Ambrose
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
Stephen Ambrose
Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.
Stephen Ambrose
It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.
Stephen Ambrose
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.
Stephen Ambrose
Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
Stephen Ambrose
I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
Stephen Ambrose
I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
Stephen Ambrose
You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.
Stephen Ambrose
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
Stephen Ambrose
To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.
Stephen Ambrose
We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.
Stephen Ambrose
In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.
Stephen Ambrose
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?
Stephen Ambrose
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.
Stephen Ambrose
Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.
Stephen Ambrose
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
Stephen Ambrose
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