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.

January 26, 2025

11 months ago

The Confederacy [i.e., the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865] has been done to death by politicians.

March 6, 2025

10 months ago

Democracy is rarely beautiful in its workings, for the many refuse to be refined, restrained, and artistic.

April 6, 2025

9 months ago

In the end we are all sacked and it’s always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life.

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