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.

October 23, 2025

9 months ago

Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

September 15, 2025

11 months ago

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong—but that is the way to bet.

May 23, 2025

1 year ago

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

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