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.

February 14, 2025

2 years ago

Whatever else may be shaken, there are some facts established beyond warring; for virtue is better than vice

October 2, 2025

1 year ago

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

January 11, 2025

2 years ago

A majority is always the best repartee. Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), British prime minister and novelist, Tancred (1847),

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