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.

American is the first democratic nation-state.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

That is the definition of equal justice under law: everyone gets a fair shot, everyone pays their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'