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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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When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Abraham Lincoln

It is the difference between art and science. Art creates truth, science discovers truth. We discover giraffes but we create hobbits.

Peter Kreeft

At the Day of Judgment it will be demanded of us, not what we have read, but what we have done. . . .

Thomas à Kempis

The nation [without a free press] ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and . . . compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Imagination is a good servant, but a bad master.

Unknown

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

Bernard Shaw

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

John Wesley

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.

Frederick Douglass

If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival.

Winston Churchill

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

Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don’t.

Mignon McLaughlin

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

Mignon McLaughlin

No legislative act . . . contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master. . . .

Alexander Hamilton

Just because we prefer something, that doesn’t make it good for us.

Scott Adams

None of us are good at mind reading, and we know it, even if we don’t admit it.

Scott Adams

There is no conflict between science and religion.

Georges Lemaître

Science is a . . . method for taking measurements that describe something—reality—that may not be understood at all.

Michael Crichton

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns. He should be drawn and quoted.

Fred Allen

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

Work is sometimes its own reward. Mostly, however, it is the price we pay to get the things we want.

Milton Friedman

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