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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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Stephen Ambrose
Age: 66 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 10
Died: 2002
Died: October 13
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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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The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
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Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
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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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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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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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Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
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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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History is everything that has ever happened.
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My first book was the book that changed my life.
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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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There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
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It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
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The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
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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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Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.
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