77 Quotes by Stephen E. Ambrose

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

Speirs was an officer with a reputation. Slim, fairly tall, dark hair, stern, ruggedly handsome, he cultivated the look of a leader, and acted it.

Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that ’they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn’t come here to fear. They hadn’t come to die. They had come to win.

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

Both Custer and Crazy Horse, in short, still had much to learn about each other.