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.

October 27, 2025

9 months ago

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by which they have once won office.

October 8, 2025

10 months ago

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room.

November 2, 2025

9 months ago

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity

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