https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:59:42 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/commager-henry-steele/52270/ https://wist.info/commager-henry-steele/52270/#respond Wed, 23 Mar 2022 14:55:19 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=52270 We cannot have a society half slave and half free; nor can we have thought half slave and half free. If we create an atmosphere in which men fear to think independently, inquire fearlessly, express themselves freely, we will in the end create the kind of society in which men no longer care to think independently or to inquire fearlessly.

Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1949-11-05), “What Ideas Are Safe?” Saturday Review
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