The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Stephen AmbroseTo be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.
Stephen AmbroseLieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn't come here to fear. They hadn't come to die. They had come to win.
Stephen Ambrose