Stephen Ambrose
Historian
1936-01-10
Quotes by Stephen Ambrose
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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 wounded man (often an enemy) become tender, caring angels of mercy. The urge to kill and the urge to save sometimes run together simultaneously.
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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 wounded man (often an enemy) become tender, caring angels of mercy. The urge to kill and the urge to save sometimes run together simultaneously.
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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.
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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?
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Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
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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.
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Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.
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World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
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