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.

January 18, 2025

2 years ago

To succeed pre-eminently in English public life it is necessary to conform either to the popular image of a bookie or of a

December 15, 2025

11 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.

June 12, 2025

1 year ago

The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act

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