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.

August 2, 2025

12 months ago

I have spent much of my life fighting the Germans and fighting the politicians.

October 11, 2025

10 months ago

The second law, Rakove’s law of principle and politics, states that the citizen is influenced by principle

September 12, 2025

11 months ago

If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

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