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 11, 2025

1 year ago

The preservation of the means of knowledge (let me repeat that: the means of knowledge

March 27, 2025

2 years ago

[On David Steel, Leader of the Liberal Party] He’s passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

May 24, 2026

5 months ago

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and shoot.

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