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.

May 8, 2025

1 year ago

Diplomacy is about surviving till the next century—politics is about surviving till Friday afternoon.

September 30, 2025

10 months ago

[Definition of] Class: when they’re running you out of town, to look like you’re leading the parade.

February 24, 2025

1 year ago

They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, or something to be done with some

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