Famous quotes by Historians

"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"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"History is everything that has ever happened"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

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

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

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

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us, and most of those in existence today"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"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"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"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 Ambrose, Historian

"Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

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

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

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

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

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

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything, just so long as they get out of the way"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

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

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"The left has lost the common touch"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

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