WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:57:18 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg guard rails – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Commager, Henry Steele -- Essay (1954), “The Necessity of Freedom,” Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent https://wist.info/commager-henry-steele/86602/ https://wist.info/commager-henry-steele/86602/#respond Mon, 26 Oct 2026 22:48:48 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=86602 If the preservation of our freedom depends upon the courts then we are, indeed, lost, for in the long run neither courts nor Constitution can save us from our own errors, follies, or wickedness.


Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1954), “The Necessity of Freedom,” Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent

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