Top 25 Quotes by Henry Steele Commager of 33 - Page 2

The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.

The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.

Henry Steele Commager

Faces, Kind, Absence

The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

Henry Steele Commager

People, Genius, Conformity

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

Henry Steele Commager

Business, Long, Political

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.

Henry Steele Commager

Order, History, Surprise

Henry Steele Commager, Raymond Henry Muessig (1980). “The study and teaching of history”, Merrill Publishing Company

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.

Henry Steele Commager

Philosophy, Believe, People

"Who is Loyal to America?". "Harper's Magazine", Vol. 195, No. 1168, September 1947.

Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

Henry Steele Commager

Crazy, Son, Men

It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices changed sharply, and that though the standards of the nineteenth century persisted the institutions that had sustained them and the sanctions that had enforced them lost influence and authority.

Henry Steele Commager

Practice, Moral, Influence

Henry Steele Commager (1961). “The American Mind”