Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Stephen E. Ambrose
Stephen E. Ambrose -
War
Quotes
4 Sourced Quotes
View all Stephen E. Ambrose Quotes
Source
Report...
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
Stephen E. Ambrose
Source
Report...
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.
Stephen E. Ambrose
Source
Report...
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
Stephen E. Ambrose
Source
Report...
Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
Stephen E. Ambrose
Quote of the day
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Stephen E. Ambrose
Creative Commons
Born:
January 10, 1936
Died:
October 13, 2002
(aged 66)
More about Stephen E. Ambrose...
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes
