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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 laying down a political system it is safer to rely on principles than upon precedents, because the former are fixed and immutable, while the latter vary with men, places, times and circumstances.

Anonymous

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. . . .

Winston Churchill

We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

Edward Bernays

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Will Rogers

Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the weak man who urges compromise—never the strong man.

Elbert Hubbard

A constitution is a compact of a people with their rulers; if the rulers break the compact, the people have a right and ought to remove them and do themselves justice.

Anonymous

By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.

Paul Krugman

God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will.

Blaise Pascal

It’s not good to let any kid near a container that has a skull and crossbones on it, because there might be a skeleton costume inside and the kid could put it on and really scare you.

Jack Handey

Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom.

Milton Friedman

Do whatever [Jesus] tells you.

Mary (Blessed Virgin)

It’s too bad that whole families have to be torn apart by something as simple as wild dogs.

Jack Handey

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

Edgar Allan Poe

The Sacrament [of Confession] gives us a double dose of what we need: forgiveness of our sins and training in humility.

Jimmy Seghers

Compromising is a sure sign of not possessing the truth. When a man yields in matters of ideals, of honor or of faith, that man is without ideals, without honor, and without faith.

Josemaría Escrivá

Although it has been said that every generation grows wiser and wiser, yet we have no reason to think they grow better and better.

Anonymous

But once you find the truth, you ought to be prepared to stand on the street corner and use all your gifts to right the wrong.

Maya Angelou

When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.

Mignon McLaughlin

We often hear that love, happiness, or personal contentment constitute the means of a good marriage and reasons to redefine marriage, but these things are the fruits of marriage, not the nature of marriage.

Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg

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