Quotes Library

May 6, 2025

Our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past…while we silence the rebels of the present.

Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998), American historian, educator, Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent (1959), Seldes p.89

What would he have to say about the events of January 6, 2021?

Rebellion, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

February 3, 2025

11 months ago

Revolution: n., a bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

March 9, 2025

10 months ago

Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free

July 2, 2025

6 months ago

Fame is a vapor; popularity is an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

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