Stephen Ambrose Quotes

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.

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

You cannot kill that city, ... I bet there's people saying, I've got to go back.' .

You can take the day off.

The copied words they discovered amounted to about 10 pages out of a total work of some 15,000 pages in print, ... The investigative reporters found them by using my footnotes.

The irony here is the man who has done the most to keep these papers from becoming available, Dick Nixon, is the man who's going to benefit the most from them because people are going to start seeing the problems from his point of view.

Nearly every artifact has a story connected to it, whether it be a hole in a helmet or a belt that a medic carried around with him as he treated the wounded on the beach.

As a people, we have wrestled with Vietnam's legacy for many years, as was and is our duty. Now we want to remind ourselves of what we have done right. Our involvement in World War II was us doing right.

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

American corporations hate to give away money.

American is the first democratic nation-state.

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

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

Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.

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

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.

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

History is everything that has ever happened.

I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.