Henry Steele Commager Quotes

"A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow."
-Henry Steele Commager in Dissent quotes.

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