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.

July 7, 2025

1 year ago

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs

November 8, 2025

12 months ago

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

November 22, 2025

11 months ago

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

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