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Posted May 1, 2018, 8:00 a.m.
Updated April 29, 2024, 3:05 p.m.

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.

Quotes

The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself. . . . Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable. . . .

H.L. Mencken

Duck diplomacy . . . means that you float along placidly on the surface, but underneath you are paddling like the dickens with your feet.

Unknown

[During the Revolutionary War,] our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do.

Donald Trump

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.

Henry Ford

Normally the man of great productive capacity who becomes rich by guiding the labor of many other men does so by enabling them to produce more than they could produce without his guidance; and both he and they share in the benefit, which comes also to the public at large.

Teddy Roosevelt

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Anaïs Nin

We cast no aspersions on any race or creed, but we must remember that every object of our institutions of society and government will fail unless America be kept American.

Calvin Coolidge

[The early Christians] willingly died for their ‘conspiracy.’ Nothing proves sincerity like martyrdom.

Peter Kreeft

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

Mignon McLaughlin

An idealist believes that the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

Sydney J. Harris

Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a country.

George Mason

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe that there are.

Ovid

‘Thy will be done’ is the essential prayer of the saint; ‘my will be done’ is the essential demand of the sinner.

Peter Kreeft

A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.

Nicolas Chamfort

It is right to learn even from an enemy.

Ovid

The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus.

Michael Crichton

But these two dramas—becoming a Christian and becoming a Catholic—are two steps in the same process and in the same direction, like being born and growing up.

Peter Kreeft

Those whom I love, I reprove and chasten; so be zealous and repent.

Holy Bible

Hysteria impels people to destroy the very thing they are struggling to preserve.

Harry S. Truman

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

Mignon McLaughlin

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