There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.

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.

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.