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.

June 10, 2025

1 year ago

The trouble with the Conservative Party is that it has not turned back the clock a single second.

January 2, 2025

2 years ago

Politicians, like prostitutes, are held in contempt. But what man does not run to them when they need their services?

December 9, 2025

8 months ago

…the best is often unattainable, and therefore the true legislator and statesman ought to be acquainted

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