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.

December 11, 2025

11 months ago

The Bill of Rights was not ordained by nature or god. It’s very human, very fragile.

November 5, 2025

12 months ago

Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he’ll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

November 30, 2025

11 months ago

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.

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