William Grayson

William Grayson (1742-1790) was a U.S. Senator from Virginia, a Democratic-Republican, who served from 1789 until his death in 1790. He previously led a regiment in the Continental Army and was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates.

Little men are seldom fond of quarreling among giants.

Anti-Federalist #2 (Borden)

We ought to be extremely cautious in this country. If ever the government be changed, it will probably be into a despotism.

Anti-Federalist #68 (Borden)

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.

Quotes

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

Mignon McLaughlin

Holy steadfastness is not intolerance.

Josemaría Escrivá

When ignorance destroys culture, monsters will emerge.

Jordan Peterson

Sex is for babies as well as for love. That’s a ‘Duh!’ to every culture but our own.

Peter Kreeft

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Henry Ford

You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.

Unknown

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

Seneca the Younger

In its sharp protest against Catholicism, Protestantism [discarded] the mysterious, mythical, and mystical aspects of the faith. In that sense it has impoverished religion.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is surely better to be wronged than to do wrong.

Isaac Asimov

All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

Anaïs Nin

To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.

John Henry Newman

[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

Where the citizen is sovereign and the official the servant . . . it is important that the sovereign—the people—should possess intelligence.

Ulysses S. Grant

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Mahatma Gandhi

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.

Carl Sagan

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Holy Bible

The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity[,] or social justice is quite bewildering to anyone brought up on out traditional ethical concepts, while for the Christian who bases his life on the Bible, it merely confirms the fundamental wickedness of evil.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

George Orwell

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