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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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Treat bad men exactly as if they were insane.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The rules are simple: They lie to us. We know they’re lying. They know we know they’re lying, but keep lying anyway. And we keep pretending to believe them.

Elena Gorokhova

The mystery of government is not how it works, but how to make it stop.

P.J. O’Rourke

How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. . . . We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don’t know.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is no instance of any government being reduced to a confirmed tyranny without military oppression.

Anonymous

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

Bad speech doesn’t require censorship, it requires good speech.

Scott Bradford

Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the revolution is never stronger than the failure of civilization. Communism is never stronger than the failure of other faiths.

Whittaker Chambers

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

Jack Handey

It was only when I lay there on rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There is no intrinsic conflict between science and religion.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

The hard times brace you, and the soft times drive you to drink.

Unknown

Many economic fallacies are due to conceiving of economic activity as a zero-sum contest, in which what is gained by one is lost by another.

Thomas Sowell

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

Tertullian

I am unacquainted with [the Creator’s] designs, but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather mistrust my own capacity than his justice.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Little children, let us not love in word or speech but in deed and in truth.

John the Apostle

The last two thousand million years are slow evolution: they are the smoke and ashes of bright but very rapid fireworks.

Georges Lemaître

For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love—this is an old rule.

Siddhartha Gautama

A hammer is good only if you stop pounding after the nail is all the way in. Keep pounding and you break the wood.

Scott Adams

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