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.

April 17, 2025

10 months ago

The important thing about the so-called ‘communications industry’ is that it is basically concerned with merchandising.

April 23, 2025

10 months ago

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

July 5, 2025

8 months ago

There is but one way for a newspaperman to look at a politician, and that is down.

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