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• We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace.

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• I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.

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• American corporations hate to give away money

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• Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

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• Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

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• American is the first democratic nation-state.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• History is everything that has ever happened.

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

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• Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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Stephen E. Ambrose (51)

Birth:	10th January, 1936
Death:	13th October, 2002
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Biographer, Historian

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