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.

December 9, 2025

11 months ago

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

March 14, 2025

2 years ago

[Of political life] The hatreds which sound so real when you read the words, which look so true when you see their scornful attitudes

November 2, 2025

12 months ago

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity

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