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. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
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… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
