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The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
Stephen Ambrose
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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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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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Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.
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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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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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I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.
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Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.
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I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
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My first book was the book that changed my life.
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It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
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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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World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
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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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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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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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Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
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Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.
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The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
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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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