76 Quotes by Stephen Ambrose

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.

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

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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