For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.

The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.