Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
Stephen Ambrose

American corporations hate to give away money.
Stephen Ambrose

American is the first democratic nation-state.
Stephen Ambrose

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
Stephen Ambrose

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
Stephen Ambrose

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

Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.
Stephen Ambrose

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.
Stephen Ambrose

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.
Stephen Ambrose

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.
Stephen Ambrose


Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.
Stephen Ambrose

History is everything that has ever happened.
Stephen Ambrose

I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
Stephen Ambrose

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
Stephen Ambrose

I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
Stephen Ambrose

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

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.
Stephen Ambrose

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
Stephen Ambrose

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
Stephen Ambrose

In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.
Stephen Ambrose