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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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If you’re not catching flak, you’re not over the target.

Unknown

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

There is an implicit but astonishing arrogance in the idea that all the apostles, all the church fathers[,] and all the millions of ordinary Christians were fundamentally mistaken about Christ for nineteen centuries, and only a few theologians, sitting at their desks, in a very different culture, nineteen centuries later, finally understood him.

Peter Kreeft

Those who are certain are demonstrating their personality type, or their belief system, not the state of their knowledge.

Michael Crichton

If God had meant us to be nudists, we’d have been born without clothes.

Walt Willis

It is . . . nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Albert Einstein

It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.

Jordan Peterson

The duty of the survivor is to bear testimony to what happened. . . . You have to warn people that these things can happen, that evil can be unleashed.

Elie Wiesel

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Those who understand freedom as the radically arbitrary license to do just what they want and to have their own way are living in a lie, for by his very nature man is part of a shared existence and his freedom is shared freedom.

Benedict XVI

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Salvador Dalí

Normally, thought precedes word; it seeks and formulates the word. But praying the Psalms and liturgical prayer in general is exactly the other way round: The word, the voice, goes ahead of us, and our mind must adapt to it.

Benedict XVI

That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Will Rogers

I don’t believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

Robert Anton Wilson

Exactly the same technology can be used for good and for evil. It is as if there were a God who said to us, ‘I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It’s up to you.’

Carl Sagan

Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business.

Henry Ford

The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi.

Stephen King

[The federal government’s] jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any.

James Madison

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