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.

March 17, 2025

11 months ago

I want to see Ireland as an example to men and women everywhere of what can be achieved by living for ideals rather than fighting for them

November 6, 2025

4 months ago

Nothing in politics is ever as good or as bad as it first appears.

September 24, 2025

5 months ago

In the end, it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

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