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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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Stephen Ambrose
Age: 66 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 10
Died: 2002
Died: October 13
Biographer
Essayist
Historian
University Teacher
Decatur
Illinois
Stephen Edward Ambrose
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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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Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
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Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.
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The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.
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My first book was the book that changed my life.
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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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The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
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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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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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It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
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Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.
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I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
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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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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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Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.
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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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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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Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
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Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.
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