History Is Full Of Surprises.

Almost All Important Questions Are Important Precisely Because They Are Not Susceptible To Quantitative Answer.

All Wars Are Popular For The First 30 Days.

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.

The Only President Who Clearly Died Of Overwork Was Polk, And That Was A Long Time Ago. Hoover, Who Worked Intensely And Humorlessly As President, Lived For More Than Thirty Years After The White House; Truman, Who Worked Intensely And Gaily, Lived For Twenty