Famous quotes by Historians

"Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945"

William Manchester, Historian

"As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action"

William Manchester, Historian

"Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"American is the first democratic nation-state"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"American corporations hate to give away money"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"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"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right--it lies in rejecting conventional political categories"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"He was a great thundering paradox of a man"

William Manchester, Historian

"I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore"

William Manchester, Historian

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

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"My first book was the book that changed my life"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

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

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

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

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

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