History is full of surprises.

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

The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

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

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

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.