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Stephen Ambrose has 64 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
• It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
• The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.
• Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.
• As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
• I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
• I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
• Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
• My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.
• World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
• Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
• Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

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