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 11, 2025

8 months ago

The Bill of Rights was not ordained by nature or god. It’s very human, very fragile.

March 9, 2025

1 year ago

Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free

December 2, 2025

8 months ago

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

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