Quotes by Henry Steele Commager

Henry Steele Commager

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

Cherish

Eccentric

Ideas

America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.

America

Libertarian

Liberty

And we wonder what can be that ‘philosophy of education’ which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.

Believe

People

Philosophy

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

Censorship In Books

Exercise

Real

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

Inspirational

Progress

Progress And Change

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Education

Essentials

Want

Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.

Effort

Government

Patterns

Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.

Enlightenment

Indulge In

Luxury

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

History

Order

Surprise

History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!

Important

Memories

Organization

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Eccentric

Education

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Errors

Essentials

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Good Man

Government

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History

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Quotes by Henry Steele Commager

Henry Steele Commager

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.

And we wonder what can be that ‘philosophy of education’ which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.

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

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.

Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!

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