The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.

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.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

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.

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.