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

Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

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.

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.