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.

January 18, 2025

2 years ago

To succeed pre-eminently in English public life it is necessary to conform either to the popular image of a bookie or of a

May 11, 2025

1 year ago

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

April 4, 2025

2 years ago

To criticize one’s country is to do it a service…Criticism, in short, is more than a right

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