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.

March 8, 2025

2 years ago

A government needs one hundred soldiers for every guerrilla it faces.

August 31, 2025

1 year ago

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

December 17, 2025

11 months ago

Men in high places, from having less personal interest in the characters of others—being safe from them—are commonly less acute observers,

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