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.

War & Peace

More Quotes

September 6, 2025
00:29
September 6, 2025
Human Nature
Prejudice is the raft unto which the ship-wrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
June 5, 2025
00:31
June 5, 2025
Human Nature
It is a great folly to offend many if you only want to insult one man.
December 12, 2025
December 12, 2025
Governance
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to the level of incompetence…in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent
1…9596979899…122
Page 97 of 122