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 4, 2025

11 months ago

Reader, suppose you were an idiot; and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

October 27, 2025

1 year ago

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by which they have once won office.

March 14, 2025

2 years ago

[Of political life] The hatreds which sound so real when you read the words, which look so true when you see their scornful attitudes

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