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.

July 26, 2025

1 year ago

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they’d be forced into some other line of business.

May 8, 2025

1 year ago

Diplomacy is about surviving till the next century—politics is about surviving till Friday afternoon.

December 10, 2025

11 months ago

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

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