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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.

Quotes

For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Holy Bible

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Martin Rees

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln

Objective does not mean ‘known by all’ or ‘believed by all.’ Even if everyone believes a lie, a lie is still a lie.

Peter Kreeft

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism.

Ludwig von Mises

The freedom to kill is not true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces the human being to slavery.

Benedict XVI

Why is it that thirty years after the greatest revolution in history, the Communists have not produced one single inspired work of the mind? What is our lack? . . . I asked at last: can it be God?

Whittaker Chambers

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Mahatma Gandhi

Regulate the mind, and then the body will spontaneously go right.

Siddhartha Gautama

Nature doesn’t seem to care whether we are smart. In terms of our survival as a species, it only matters that some people, in some places, get things right some of the time.

Scott Adams

Protest without serious consideration is dangerous. You have to back up what you say.

Maya Angelou

[Einstein] said, in effect, that everything should be as simple as it can be but not simpler!

Roger Sessions

Modernists have undermined faith far more effectively than atheists. The wolves in sheep’s clothing have carried away many more sheep than the honest wolves.

Peter Kreeft

How many things, both just and unjust, are sanctioned by custom!

Terence

In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost.

Michael Crichton

Don’t judge a group by its worst 5 percent. If you do, you’re probably in the worst 5 percent of your own group.

Scott Adams

Not to be deceived in matters of faith, we must always distinguish very carefully between the abuses to which a devotion may lead and the truths upon which the devotion rests.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with it.

John Henry Newman

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