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 24, 2025

1 year ago

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

December 3, 2025

11 months ago

Healey’s first law of politics: when you are in a hole, stop digging.

May 3, 2026

6 months ago

The principles of a free constitution are irrevocably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

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