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 15, 2025

5 months ago

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong—but that is the way to bet.

March 5, 2025

12 months ago

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion

July 26, 2025

7 months ago

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they’d be forced into some other line of business.

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