Stephen E. Ambrose - American Quotes

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The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

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At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.

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

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When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.

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

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