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 13, 2025

10 months ago

It is a fine thing to face machine guns for immortality and a medal, but isn’t it a fine thing, too, to face calumny,

March 24, 2025

9 months ago

[Of Winston Churchill] He is a terrible burden for any Govt. to carry—someone said of [his father] Randolph Churchill

March 2, 2025

10 months ago

There is a providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

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