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“There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Writing #Way #Good Writing
“I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Opportunity #Thinking #Race
“The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Successful #Numbers #Secret
“Oftentimes the fascinating thing is that people who are seen as commanding figures at the moment that they were considered for President and did not run turned out to be treated by history as much more minor figures politically.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Running #People #President
“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Inspirational #Faith #Past
“I think it's just that the private lives of our public leaders are so much more exposed today that if you're sensitive to protecting your family, it's much harder to not get defensive when somebody asks you those really rude questions about what your wife and your children are thinking and feeling at that exact moment.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Children #Thinking #Wife
“The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Evil #Holocaust #Crime
“Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn't come here to fear. They hadn't come to die. They had come to win.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Sleep #Sacrifice #Winning
“My first book was the book that changed my life.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Book #Firsts #Changed
“In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. In the 21st century, we must devote ourselves to restoring it.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Rivers #Mind #Environmental
“Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#People #Choices #Results
“It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Nursing #Nurse #Praise
“My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Book #Lasts #My Favorite
“I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Korea #Vietnam #Young
“As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Long #Promise #Principles
“The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Usa #United States #Done
“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.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#War #Fighting #Boys
“Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Horse #Crazy #Saws
“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.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#War #Hero #Thinking
“In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Fire #People #Burning
“I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Easy #Admirable #Subjects
“I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#World #Study #Lifetime
“World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#War #Optimism #Bombs
“Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Country #Men #White
“Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Rivers #Wildlife #Dams
“Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Men #Choices #Century
“Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Apology #Passionate #Emotion
“I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Done #Taught #Professors
“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.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Children #Opportunity #Men
“Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.”
-- Stephen Ambrose

#Character #Rocks #Choices

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