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 11, 2025

12 months ago

We are here to consult the interests and not to obey the will of the people, if we honestly believe that will conflicts with those interests.

July 15, 2025

1 year ago

[To one of her hotel housekeepers] Only the little people pay taxes.

May 23, 2025

1 year ago

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

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