Stephen E. Ambrose Quotes

• We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace.

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

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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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• 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?

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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.

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• 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.

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• Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

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• Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

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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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• To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

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

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• The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

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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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• The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

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• The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

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• The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

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• The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

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• The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

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Stephen E. Ambrose (51)

Birth:	10th January, 1936
Death:	13th October, 2002
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Biographer, Historian

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