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 29, 2025

11 months ago

Ordinary men usually manage public affairs better than more gifted fellows. The latter are always wanting to appear wiser than the laws,

March 24, 2025

9 months ago

[Of Winston Churchill] He is a terrible burden for any Govt. to carry—someone said of [his father] Randolph Churchill

March 18, 2025

9 months ago

It’s 90 per cent of the politicians who give the other 10 per cent a bad name.

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