Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.

Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths.

Religion can no longer rest its claims on a dogmatic supernaturalism, because any dogma that is irreconcilable with tested knowledge must be rejected... One sentence ... sums up the dark and deadly pages of Chistian history: If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

The sense of community is indispensable...to full self-realization.