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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 hereditary wealth, the privileges of rank, and the prerogatives of birth have ceased to be, and when every man derives his strength from himself alone, it becomes evident that the chief cause of disparity between the fortunes of men is the mind.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgement to have safely traveled from star to star.

Carl Sagan

There is . . . a close bond and necessary relation between . . . freedom and productive industry. This proposition is generally true of all nations, but especially of democratic nations.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Once we stop believing that morality has a basis in objective reality, once we start believing that morality is nothing more than subjective feelings and wishes, once we reduce justice from a cosmic law to a private preference, we no longer see it as binding or fear to disobey it when it is inconvenient.

Peter Kreeft

The liberty of love, therefore, is not license. Freedom implies not just a mere choice but also responsibility for choice.

Fulton Sheen

Be polite and generous, but don’t undervalue yourself.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life.

Albert Einstein

A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament . . . or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment.

Oscar Wilde

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There’s far less competition.

Dwight Morrow

We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.

Carl Sagan

Man, by making himself a god, discovers the painful agony that he is not God.

Fulton Sheen

Be true, be brave, stand. All the rest is darkness.

Stephen King

It is through strife, or the readiness for strife, that a nation must win greatness.

Teddy Roosevelt

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Salvador Dalí

Every one who is seriously engaged in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that the laws of nature manifest the existence of a spirit vastly superior to that of men, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.

Albert Einstein

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

To this end we ought to take every precaution to prevent legislators becoming mere office-men; choose them frequently, make them recallable, establish rotation among them, make them ineligible to offices, and give them as small a share as possible in the disposal of them.

Richard Henry Lee

A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like the cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients of happiness.

Fulton Sheen

Nothing is easier than to have good intentions but, without an understanding of how an economy works, good intentions can lead to counterproductive, or even disastrous, consequences for a whole nation.

Thomas Sowell

The problem is not repenting of our sins, not being ashamed of what we have done.

Francis (Pope)

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