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 29, 2025

1 year ago

Don’t believe those who fervently preach liberty.

January 11, 2025

2 years ago

A majority is always the best repartee. Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), British prime minister and novelist, Tancred (1847),

November 27, 2025

11 months ago

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

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