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

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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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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.
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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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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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The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
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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 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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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.
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At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.
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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 rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
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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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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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It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.
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The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
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Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
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There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
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Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
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My first book was the book that changed my life.
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