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James Q. Wilson

James Q. Wilson (1931-2012) was an American writer, political scientist, and professor. He co-authored the textbook American Government and served on numerous boards and think tanks.

Marriage is a socially arranged solution for the problem of getting people to stay together and care for children that the mere desire for children, and the sex that makes children possible, does not solve.

The Marriage Problem

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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Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

John Adams

Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

In democracies, the welfare state is the beginning, and the police state the end. The two merge sooner or later, in all experience, and for obvious reasons.

Melchior Palyi

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In despotic states men know not how to act, because they are told nothing; in democratic nations they often act at random, because nothing is to be left untold.

Alexis de Tocqueville

[Socialism has] been a failure economically, socially, culturally, and it also murdered over 100 million human beings.

Javier Milei

Many bureaucracies have petty authoritarians within them, generating unnecessary rules and procedures simply to express and cement power.

Jordan Peterson

Every country has its own language, yet the subjects of which the untutored soul speaks are the same everywhere.

Tertullian

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Ayn Rand

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Patrick Henry

There is nothing better or more necessary than love.

John of the Cross

Those who do not trust enough will not be trusted.

Lao Tsu

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Aristotle

In three months I’ve gone from network television to Twitter to performing live in theaters, and now I’m headed to basic cable. My plan is working perfectly.

Conan O’Brien

Who will guard the guards themselves?

Juvenal

If you are what you ought to be, you will set fire to all Italy, and beyond.

Catherine of Siena

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Frederick Douglass

In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Unknown

You cannot eliminate religion from the psyche of mankind. If you suppress it in one form, it merely re-emerges in another form.

Michael Crichton

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.

Mahatma Gandhi

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