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.

December 19, 2025

10 months ago

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.

January 13, 2025

2 years ago

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness.

August 19, 2025

1 year ago

Laws are like spiders’ webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but larger things break through and escape.

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