Top 50 Quotes by Stephen Ambrose

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

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

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

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.

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

Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.

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.

Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job.

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

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.