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.

June 8, 2025

7 months ago

Democracy is the process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

January 6, 2025

12 months ago

As democracy is perfected, the office of president [of the United States of America] represents

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

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