Stephen Ambrose

“There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.”

“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.”

“When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.”