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.

January 18, 2025

11 months ago

To succeed pre-eminently in English public life it is necessary to conform either to the popular image of a bookie or of a

July 3, 2025

6 months ago

Every government is a device by which a few control the actions of many…on both sides at the moment

April 8, 2025

9 months ago

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.

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