It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn't foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
“A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. A… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
History is organized memory, and the organization is all important! — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices changed sharply,… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
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