More From Stephen Ambrose
- "You don’t hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school."
- "Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?"
- "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."
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- "I’d never had money growing up, and it’s never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that."― Harlan Coben
- "I don’t always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!"― Liz Phair
- "Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets."― W. Somerset Maugham