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William Francis Butler

Sir William Francis Butler (1838-1910) was a British military officer, writer, and adventurer. He served in several African territories including modern-day Egypt, Sudan, and South Africa.

The nation that...[draws] a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.

Charles George Gordon

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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The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

Alexander Hamilton

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Augustine of Hippo

It is the difference between art and science. Art creates truth, science discovers truth. We discover giraffes but we create hobbits.

Peter Kreeft

The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone . . . with the sky, nature and God.

Anne Frank

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Aristotle

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. . . . Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.

Max Planck

Okay, so I lost The Tonight Show, but I’ll show them . . . I’ll stop shaving.

Conan O’Brien

If science is to progress and to benefit the human race, it must return to the protective mantle that Christian thought provided it when it was born.

Stacy Trasancos

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Thomas Jefferson

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

Elie Wiesel

One man, however little, must not be sacrificed to another, however great . . . [or] to a majority, or to all men.

Theodore Parker

I know a man who has such a passion for proving that he will have no personal existence after death that he falls back on the position that he has no personal existence now.

G.K. Chesterton

What happened with slavery is now happening with embryo killing: the people who used to defend it as a ‘necessary evil’ . . . now promote it as a social good. . . .

Robert George

Let him admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper!—he will be beloved of the good, by the bad he will be hated.

Siddhartha Gautama

It will not be necessary for any one to fight again against the proposal of a censorship of the press. We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press.

G.K. Chesterton

For knowledge itself is power.

Francis Bacon

An act of love always tends towards two things: to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.

Thomas Aquinas

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

Christianity, which has declared that all men are equal in the sight of God, will not refuse to acknowledge that all citizens are equal in the eye of the law.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.

John Basil Barnhill

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