For History Is To The Nation As

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.

Liberalism Regards All Absolutes With Profound Skepticism, Including Both Moral Imperatives And Final Solutions... Insistence Upon Any Particular Solution Is The Mark Of An Ideologue.

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.

The Passion For Tidiness Is The Historian's Occupational Disease.

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!