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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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There are only two obstacles to responsible legislation—the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Thomas Sowell

I die the king’s faithful servant, and God’s first.

Thomas More

Violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights, subject only to the proviso that he not interfere with the freedom of other individuals to do the same.

Milton Friedman

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

Salman Rushdie

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

Bertrand Russell

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

George Mason

Regardless of its hypothetical virtues . . . the implementation of Marxism was a disaster everywhere it was attempted. . . .

Jordan Peterson

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. On the lips of him who has understanding wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense.

Holy Bible

A fellow who is always declaring he’s no fool, usually has his suspicions.

Wilson Mizner

Nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Anatole France

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

I had anger but never hate. Before the war, I was too busy studying to hate. After the war, I thought, What’s the use? To hate would be to reduce myself.

Elie Wiesel

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Paul the Apostle

Always obey your parents when they are present.

Mark Twain

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

Elbert Hubbard

As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?

Anne Frank

An unjust law is no law at all.

Augustine of Hippo

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