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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.

Quotes

The principal crime of the human race, the highest guilt charged upon the world, the whole procuring cause of judgment, is idolatry.

Tertullian

People who live their lives selfishly and at the detriment of others are often the ones who complain loudest about how badly they think they’ve been mistreated.

Scott Bradford

You must acquire the best knowledge first . . . ; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

Erasmus

In laying down a political system it is safer to rely on principles than upon precedents, because the former are fixed and immutable, while the latter vary with men, places, times and circumstances.

Anonymous

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

Mignon McLaughlin

I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.

Thomas Sowell

I believe more in the goodness of bad people than I do in the badness of good people.

Elbert Hubbard

This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.

Will Rogers

I used to be indecisive but now I’m not so sure.

Anonymous

Churches . . . that are nothing more than a loosely bound assembly of individuals committed to finding their own ‘truth,’ are no longer the church in any meaningful sense, because there is no shared belief.

Rod Dreher

God therefore neither wills evil to be done, nor wills it not to be done, but wills to permit evil to be done; and this is a good.

Thomas Aquinas

The purpose of the First Amendment’s religion clause was not to protect the state (or the people) from religion, but to protect religion from the state. . . .

Scott Bradford

The compacts which are to embrace thirteen distinct States in a common bond of amity and union, must as necessarily be a compromise of as many dissimilar interests and inclinations. How can perfection spring from such materials?

Alexander Hamilton

Forced compassion always short-circuits the human heart and destroys the integrity of true and loving charity.

Paul Skousen

Friendship is a reciprocal arrangement. You are not morally obliged to support someone who is making the world a worse place.

Jordan Peterson

Hardly any amount of oppression from above takes the heart out of a boy like oppression from his fellows.

C.S. Lewis

Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it.

John Henry Newman

I’m an American, and most of the time proud of it. Even when I am displeased with what my country is doing, I am still an American who is displeased.

Maya Angelou

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

Blaise Pascal

Some of our folks went to Washington to drain the swamp and made partnership with the alligators instead.

Fred Thompson

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