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

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.

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

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

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.