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.

August 11, 2025

1 year ago

We are here to consult the interests and not to obey the will of the people, if we honestly believe that will conflicts with those interests.

March 16, 2025

2 years ago

Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.

August 14, 2025

1 year ago

[Notice kept on his desk while working on his biography of Lord Mountbatten] Remember.

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