Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.
For Conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.
Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.
One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another.
Wars do not always begin with an abrupt, cymbal-crash rupture of conditions properly characterized as peace. There can be almost seamlessly incremental transitions.