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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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Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Maya Angelou

Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today’s intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders, and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world.

Thomas Sowell

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

Ovid

If the Constitution, intelligently and reasonably construed, stands in the way of desirable legislation, the blame must rest upon that instrument, and not upon the court for enforcing it according to its terms. The remedy in that situation—and the only true remedy—is to amend the Constitution.

George Sutherland

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.

Hugo Black

For me, the worst thing about having King Kong walk down your street is that kids could look up and see the giant genitalia.

Jack Handey

Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

Of all the symptoms of decay in our decadent civilization, subjectivism is the most disastrous of all. A mistake can possibly be discovered and amended if and only if truth exists and can be known and is loved and searched for.

Peter Kreeft

It appeared to me that there were two paths to truth, [science and faith,] and I decided to follow both of them.

Georges Lemaître

Not to be deceived in matters of faith, we must always distinguish very carefully between the abuses to which a devotion may lead and the truths upon which the devotion rests.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

We may have, for the first president, and perhaps, one in a century or two afterwards . . . a great and good man, governed by superior motives; but these are not events to be calculated upon in the present state of human nature.

Richard Henry Lee

I am a gun. I have challenged the waves and crossed a vast, unforgiving sea. I have landed on these shores. I am held by the pilgrim, the pioneer, and the trail blazer. I have brought civilization to a barren wilderness.

R. G. Yoho

It’s all well and good to say that reality exists only in one’s mind, but those who believe it should still look both ways before crossing the street.

Scott Hahn

Have republics in practice been less addicted to war than monarchies? Are not the former administered by men as well as the latter?

Alexander Hamilton

War is horrible, but slavery is worse, and you may be sure that the British people would rather go down fighting than live in servitude.

Winston Churchill

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter—for the future.

Nikola Tesla

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Robert Frost

For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed; for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name.

Mary (Blessed Virgin)

Original art is never created in the safe middle ground, but always at the edge.

Salman Rushdie

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Martin Rees

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