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.

December 16, 2025

2 months ago

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

January 14, 2025

1 year ago

[On the popularity of Margaret Thatcher] The further you got from Britain, the more admired you found she was.

January 21, 2025

1 year ago

The quality of legislation passed to deal with a problem is inversely proportional to the volume of media clamor that brought it on.

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