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

Stephen Ambrose

Heroes

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

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

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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People

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

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

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

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Old

Vietnam

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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Business

History is everything that has ever happened.

Stephen Ambrose

History

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

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

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.

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

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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Man

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

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Crime

Evil