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.

April 25, 2025

2 years ago

Government…is simply not the channel through which men’s noblest impulses are to be realized.

April 24, 2025

2 years ago

Generosity is part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it

September 4, 2025

1 year ago

I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man that he’s better than the best coloured man

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