Henry Steele Commager

About

Henry Steele Commager (October 25, 1902 – March 2, 1998) was an American historian. As one of the most active and prolific liberal intellectuals of his time, with 40 books and 700 essays and reviews, he helped define modern liberalism in the United States.

Quotes from Henry Steele Commager

The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought.

—Henry Steele Commager in Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent

More about this quote

Tags:

danger thought diversity absent-mindedness

Permalink for this quote

Freedom in 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.

—Henry Steele Commager in Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent

More about this quote

Tags:

freedom security prosperity luxury enlightenment

Permalink for this quote

Books

Henry Steele Commager has the following books quoted on Quodid:

Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent