Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Ambrose

It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.

Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Ambrose

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

Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Ambrose

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

Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Ambrose

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

Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Ambrose

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Ambrose

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
Stephen Ambrose

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
Stephen Ambrose

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.

Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Ambrose

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

Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Ambrose

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
Stephen Ambrose

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

Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Ambrose

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Ambrose

My first book was the book that changed my life.

Stephen Ambrose
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
Stephen Ambrose

Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job.

Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Ambrose

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Ambrose

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

Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Ambrose

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Ambrose

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

Stephen Ambrose
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.