What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go is right?

Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!

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.

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

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

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

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