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.

March 27, 2025

2 years ago

[On David Steel, Leader of the Liberal Party] He’s passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

December 25, 2025

10 months ago

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

October 24, 2025

1 year ago

[On dealing with the Royal Family] I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

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