Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.
Stephen AmbroseThere are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
Stephen AmbroseIn the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.
Stephen Ambrose