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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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Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it kindles the great.

Roger de Rabutin

For the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

William Blackstone

Campaign pledges . . . ought to carry something of the guarantee principle and money-back policy that an honorable business institution carries with the sale of its goods.

Edward Bernays

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Michael Crichton

The worst tempered people I’ve ever met were people who knew they were wrong.

Wilson Mizner

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Elbert Hubbard

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Thomas Jefferson

When you ain’t nothing else, you are an artist. It’s the one thing you can claim to be and nobody can prove you ain’t.

Will Rogers

You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong—only because cruelty was pleasant or useful to him.

C. S. Lewis

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Will Rogers

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Freeman Dyson

Be not intimidated . . . nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

John Adams

Some of the sharpest men in argument are notoriously unsound in judgment.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Religion begins at the point where reason and knowledge are powerless and forever fail—the point at which man senses the mystery of his good and evil, his suffering and his destiny, as a soul in search of God.

Whittaker Chambers

A tax, in the general understanding of the term, and as used in the Constitution, signifies an exaction for the support of the Government. The word has never been thought to connote the expropriation of money from one group for the benefit of another.

Owen Roberts

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

George Orwell

When they hear the words of God on our lips, unbelievers are amazed at their beauty and power, but when they see that those words have no effect in our lives, their admiration turns to scorn, and they dismiss such words as myths and fairy tales.

Clement of Rome

Whether they ever find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.

Jack Handey

As an ancient axiom states, the Church makes the Eucharist, and the Eucharist makes the Church.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

Nikola Tesla

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