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