76 Quotes by Stephen Ambrose

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

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

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.

My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.