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.

August 19, 2025

12 months ago

Laws are like spiders’ webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but larger things break through and escape.

January 25, 2025

2 years ago

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

August 11, 2025

12 months ago

We are here to consult the interests and not to obey the will of the people, if we honestly believe that will conflicts with those interests.

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