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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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In every man’s writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.

Thomas Carlyle

A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.

John Henry Newman

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein

Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions!

Paul Samuelson

If you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the precipitate.

Anonymous

Broadly speaking, short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.

Winston Churchill

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves. . . .

Aristotle

Authentic love is an act of the will that has two vital elements: self-sacrifice and commitment.

Jimmy Seghers

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You don’t have real diversity when you have a group of people who look different and think alike.

Peter Thiel

Lovers’ quarrels are the renewal of love.

Terence

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

Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.

Mignon McLaughlin

Next to hating their enemies, men are most inclined to flatter them.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The best way to solve any problem is to remove the cause.

Martin Luther King Jr.

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

John Adams

Socialism is structured so that it will never achieve its stated goals. The reason is self-evident: Socialism is a self-perpetuating consumption of other people’s labors, and when those labors run out, the whole system collapses.

Paul Skousen

The consequences of an action do not increase its goodness or malice.

Thomas Aquinas

It is vitally important for the Church today to go forth and preach the Gospel to all: to all places, on all occasions, without hesitation, reluctance, or fear. The joy of the Gospel is for all people: no one can be excluded.

Francis (Pope)

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies.

Barry Goldwater

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