Top 50 Quotes by Stephen Ambrose

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.

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.

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

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

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

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