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.

October 5, 2025

10 months ago

Every man is equally entitled to protection by law

May 30, 2025

1 year ago

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years

October 27, 2025

9 months ago

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by which they have once won office.

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