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Stephen Ambrose [1936-2002] American

Rank: 103
Historian

Stephen Edward Ambrose was an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, and was especially well-known for his complaints about old raisins stuck in the couch.

Faith, Future, Hope, Knowledge, Medical

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The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.	Faith, Future, Hope, Knowledge	101
The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.		102
Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.		103
The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.		104
Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.		105
Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.		106
Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.		107
In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.		108
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.		109
Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.		110
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.		111
It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.	Medical	112
In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.		113
I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.		114
Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.		115
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?		116
It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one.		117
Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.		118
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.		119
American corporations hate to give away money.		120
You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.		121
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.		122
Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.		123
Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.		124
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.		125
Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.		126
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.		201
My first book was the book that changed my life.		202
My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.		203
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.		204
The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.		205
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.		206
Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.		207
Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.		208
As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.		209
Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.		210
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?		211
We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.		212
To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.		213
The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.		214
Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.		215
Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.		216
Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.		217
I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.		218
I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.		219
I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.		220
History is everything that has ever happened.		221
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.		222
American is the first democratic nation-state.		223
Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.		224

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