Support Victims of Hurricane Harvey

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Posted August 28, 2017, 12:30 p.m.

Southeast Texas has been devastated by Hurricane Harvey, the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States in twelve years. Though now downgraded to a tropical storm, Harvey continues to hover over Texas and drop record-setting amounts of rain. Widespread flooding is occurring throughout the region, and many thousands of people have been displaced.

My own family in Houston is safe, but many others are not. Please consider making a donation to a reputable disaster relief charity like Catholic Charities USA or the American Red Cross. Your donation will be used to help provide for the safety and well-being of the victims of this disaster.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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Nothing is done, unless the Almighty wills it to be done, either by permitting it, or by actually doing it.

Augustine of Hippo

I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

G. K. Chesterton

The totalitarian states can do great things, but . . . they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle hanging on the wall of the working class flat or laborer’s cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

George Orwell

[A conservative is] a statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a liberal, who wants to replace them with others.

Ambrose Bierce

Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act.

Aristotle

In its sharp protest against Catholicism, Protestantism [discarded] the mysterious, mythical, and mystical aspects of the faith. In that sense it has impoverished religion.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When men are uniform in their opinions, it affords evidence that they are sincere. When they are shifting, it gives reason to believe, they do not change from conviction.

Melancton Smith

The only time no ever means no in the absence of violence is when it is uttered by one civilized person to another.

Jordan Peterson

One can survive everything nowadays except death.

Oscar Wilde

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies.

Barry Goldwater

The more I see of the world, the more I am convinced that civilization is a blessing not sufficiently estimated by those who have not traced its progress . . .

Mary Wollstonecraft

Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

There are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we are defeated in our innermost personal selves?

Maximilian Kolbe

I am not a member of any organized party—I am a Democrat!

Will Rogers

We’re all putting on an act and hoping the audience buys it.

Scott Adams

Congress shall make no law respecting . . . the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

U.S. Constitution

The greatest intellectual discovery of this generation is that the real cause of problems is solutions.

Eric Sevareid

It is the American example that deserves the most credit for the global spread of democratic politics and free-market economies. In this sense, too, the world of today is a world that we invented.

Thomas Friedman

If you’re using a biased instrument, it doesn’t matter how many measurements you take—you’re aiming at the wrong target.

Nate Silver

It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see.

Michael Crichton

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