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.

October 17, 2025

10 months ago

[When asked what he had done during the French Revolution] I survived.

March 17, 2025

1 year ago

I want to see Ireland as an example to men and women everywhere of what can be achieved by living for ideals rather than fighting for them

December 9, 2025

8 months ago

…the best is often unattainable, and therefore the true legislator and statesman ought to be acquainted

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