Author: Henry Steele Commager

Quotes

It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

- Henry Steele Commager

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

- Henry Steele Commager

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

- Henry Steele Commager

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

- Henry Steele Commager

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