Norman Thomas

Reverend Norman Thomas (1884-1968) was an American Presbyterian minister and orator who stood six times as the Socialist Party candidate for president. He was an advocate for "democratic socialism" and civil rights.


All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time.

No theory of the state, whether socialistic or capitalistic, is valid, which makes it master, not servant, of man.

The similarities of the economics of the New Deal to the economics of Mussolini's corporative state or Hitler's totalitarian state are both close and obvious.

We have got to find a substitute for war, and the substitute isn’t surrender.

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.