Stephen Ambrose

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

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.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate - he was said to describe the Montana legislators this way: 'I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.'

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.