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.

November 7, 2025

12 months ago

Europeans often ask and Americans do not often explain, how it happens that this great office [the presidency]

February 28, 2025

2 years ago

The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but a mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature,

April 27, 2025

2 years ago

A decent provision for the poor, is the true test of civilization.

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