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.

July 4, 2025

6 months ago

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.

January 15, 2025

11 months ago

Politics is largely a matter of heart. R. A. Butler (1902-1982), British Conservative politician,

March 13, 2025

10 months ago

Those who exercise power and determine policy are generally men whose minds have been formed by events twenty or thirty years before.

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