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.

May 8, 2025

10 months ago

Diplomacy is about surviving till the next century—politics is about surviving till Friday afternoon.

August 8, 2025

7 months ago

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

April 20, 2025

10 months ago

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he.

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