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.

November 2, 2025

12 months ago

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity

October 2, 2025

1 year ago

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

November 5, 2025

12 months ago

Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he’ll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

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