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.

September 5, 2025

1 year ago

[On freedom of the press] The intrusion of government into this domain is symptomatic of the disease of this society.

December 4, 2025

11 months ago

Reader, suppose you were an idiot; and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

February 14, 2025

2 years ago

Whatever else may be shaken, there are some facts established beyond warring; for virtue is better than vice

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