Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.
Stephen AmbroseWashington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.
Stephen AmbroseThere are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
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