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.

November 3, 2025

4 months ago

One of the uses of history is to free us from a falsely imagined past.

April 1, 2025

11 months ago

The majority never has right on its side. Never I say! That is one of the social lies that a free

December 31, 2025

2 months ago

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

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