The Genius Of Impeachment Lay In The

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

There Is Far Less To The Presidency, In Terms Of Essential Activity, Than Meets The Eye.

The First Rule Of Democracy Is To Distrust All Leaders Who Begin To Believe Their Own Publicity.

To Say That There Is A Case For Heroes Is Not To Say That There Is A Case For Hero Worship. The Surrender Of Decision, The Unquestioning Submission To Leadership, The Prostration Of The Average Man Before The Great Man -- These Are The Diseases Of Heroism, And They Are Fatal To Human Dignity. History Amply Shows That It Is Possible To Have Heroes Without Turning Them Into Gods. And History Shows, Too, That When A Society, In Flight From Hero Worship, Decides To Do Without Great Men At All, It Gets Into Troubles Of Its Own.

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.