Author: Stephen Ambrose

Quotes

Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.

Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.

- Stephen Ambrose

Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job.

Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job.

- Stephen Ambrose

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

- Stephen Ambrose

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

- Stephen Ambrose

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

- Stephen Ambrose

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

- Stephen Ambrose

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

- Stephen Ambrose

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

- Stephen Ambrose

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

- Stephen Ambrose

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