Talk:Henry Steele Commager

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 * 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.


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


 * Henry S. Commager said that the US Constitution was the best chance for political freedom, calling it a "perfect blueprint."


 * 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."


 * 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.