Quotes By Stephen Ambrose

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.

American corporations hate to give away money.

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

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.

In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.

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.

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

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