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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.
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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The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
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Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.
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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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I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
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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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I think it's just that the private lives of our public leaders are so much more exposed today that if you're sensitive to protecting your family, it's much harder to not get defensive when somebody asks you those really rude questions about what your wife and your children are thinking and feeling at that exact moment.
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Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.
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There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
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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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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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The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
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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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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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Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
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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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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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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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My first book was the book that changed my life.
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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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