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.

June 17, 2025

6 months ago

As a feast to which all the guests contribute is better than a banquet furnished by a single man

June 3, 2025

7 months ago

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

January 31, 2025

11 months ago

It is we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; not yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.

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