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“I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.”

Stephen Ambrose

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

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

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It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good…

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

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The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

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It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

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In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the…

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

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The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

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

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

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American corporations hate to give away money.

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