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 10, 2025

1 year ago

I respect fidelity to colleagues even though they are fit for the hangman.

October 20, 2025

9 months ago

Universal suffrage [i.e., votes for all adult men and women] is the government of a house by its nursery.

September 25, 2025

10 months ago

…that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

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