Branch Rickey

Wesley Branch Rickey (1881-1965) was an American baseball player, football player, sports manager, and executive. He introduced the batting helmet and minor league "farm" system, and broke the color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson to the Dodgers.

Luck...is the residue of design and is governed by causes which are generally in the power of the man himself to govern.

Lexington Leader, November 1, 1915

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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Error has no rights.

Unknown

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

Thomas Sowell

I love justice, not for its consequences for bodily gain, but for itself, for the moral truth and loveliness thereof.

Theodore Parker

Use a picture. It’s worth a thousand words.

Arthur Brisbane

I am a lover of liberty. I will not and I cannot serve a party.

Erasmus

The compacts which are to embrace thirteen distinct States in a common bond of amity and union, must as necessarily be a compromise of as many dissimilar interests and inclinations. How can perfection spring from such materials?

Alexander Hamilton

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The escape from tyranny is often followed not by Paradise, but by a sojourn in the desert, aimless, confused and deprived.

Jordan Peterson

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good; a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.

C. S. Lewis

Prices determined in a free market are a form of free speech.

Milton Friedman

Too many of us believe we will never need to act individually—violently, if necessary—to protect ourselves, our families, our liberty, our communities, or our country.

Scott Bradford

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Edmund Burke

Reason itself is a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

G. K. Chesterton

All good things arrive unto them that wait—and don’t die in the meantime.

Mark Twain

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

U.S. Constitution

Everything human must have in it both joy and sorrow; the only matter of interest is the manner in which the two things are balanced or divided.

G. K. Chesterton

Organic life . . . has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Bertrand Russell

The demolition derby is . . . a form of gladiatorial combat for our times.

Tom Wolfe

Thinkers are rare; doers are rarer; and thinker-doers are rarest.

Fred Brooks

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

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