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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.

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Well-makers lead the water wherever they like; fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood; good people fashion themselves.

Siddhartha Gautama

They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer—not an easy answer—but simple.

Ronald Reagan

It’s easier to part with a friend than an opinion.

Mignon McLaughlin

If we attach great importance to the opinion of ordinary men in great unanimity when we are dealing with daily matters, there is no reason why we should disregard it when we are dealing with history or fable.

G. K. Chesterton

[The] power of accurate observation . . . is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Bernard Shaw

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

John Paul II

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

Ulysses S. Grant

There is no bigotry in treating genuinely different things differently.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

A mother and father each bring something unique and irreplaceable to child-rearing that the other cannot.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

Nothing is easier than to have good intentions but, without an understanding of how an economy works, good intentions can lead to counterproductive, or even disastrous, consequences for a whole nation.

Thomas Sowell

Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.

Mignon McLaughlin

We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.

Teddy Roosevelt

I am not an Atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a Pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.

Albert Einstein

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Alexander Hamilton

I think there is always a need in any struggle for sensationalists. They get the headlines, they get the ear of the public, they take the race horse chances.

Maya Angelou

Let falsehood enter the world, let it even reign in the world—but not with my help.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.

John Henry Newman

A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature.

Nikola Tesla

But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

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