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

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.

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.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

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