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
—Henry Steele Commager in Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent
Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) 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.In the 1940s and 1950s, Commager was noted for his campaigns against McCarthyism...
—Henry Steele Commager in Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent
I have not spoken to him for ten years, but I thought of him every single day.
—James C. Scott in Two Cheers for Anarchism