Stephen Ambrose

“We live in a society cursed by too much information, in which it has become a axiom that the more we know, the less we understand.”

“A nation that forgets its past has no future.”

“More than any other single factor, demographics is the study of the future.”

“At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.”

“It is one of the ironies of history that the first great empire in history, the Akkadian, was brought down by the world's first great environmental disaster.”

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

“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”