Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.
Stephen AmbroseI thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
Stephen AmbroseWashington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.
Stephen AmbroseThe past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
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