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.

April 28, 2025

8 months ago

We hope that the world will not narrow into a neighbourhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

March 18, 2025

9 months ago

It’s 90 per cent of the politicians who give the other 10 per cent a bad name.

February 7, 2025

11 months ago

I will govern according to the common weal [meaning welfare], but not according to the common will.

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