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.

September 11, 2025

6 months ago

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on buses and in the subway.

January 14, 2025

1 year ago

[On the popularity of Margaret Thatcher] The further you got from Britain, the more admired you found she was.

January 19, 2025

1 year ago

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

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