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.

November 12, 2025

9 months ago

Humming, Hawing and Hesitation are the three Graces of contemporary Parliamentary oratory.

September 12, 2025

11 months ago

If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

December 15, 2025

8 months ago

If you want to know the depth and meanness of Human Nature, you have got to be a prime minister running a general election.

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