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Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.
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Stephen Ambrose
Age: 66 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 10
Died: 2002
Died: October 13
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Decatur
Illinois
Stephen Edward Ambrose
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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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Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.
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Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
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I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
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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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The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
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Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
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There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
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I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
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Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.
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During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.
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The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.
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The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
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Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.
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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.
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I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
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Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.
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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.
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It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
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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.
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