Stephen Ambrose Quotes

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

War creates many strange juxtapositions, perhaps none stranger than this: men who are doing their utmost to kill other men can transform in a split second into lifesavers. Soldiers who encounter a wou...

About Author

Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American historian, academic, and author, most noted for his books on World War II and his biographies of U.S. presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many bestselling volumes of American popular history.

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

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

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

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.

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

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

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