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.

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

October 21, 2025

1 year ago

The revolutionary spirit is mightily convenient in this: that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

November 6, 2025

12 months ago

Nothing in politics is ever as good or as bad as it first appears.

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