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.

March 26, 2025

2 years ago

The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

June 7, 2025

1 year ago

If the essential rights of sovereignty…be taken away, the Commonwealth is thereby dissolved

November 23, 2025

11 months ago

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

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