Rose of Lima

Saint Rose of Lima (1586-1617) was a Peruvian Catholic lay Dominican known for her life of penance and care for the poor. She was canonized by Pope Clement X in 1671, becoming the first canonized saint born in the Americas.

Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.

Vita mirabilis (Hansen)

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 ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.

Hannah Arendt

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

John Adams

Science spotlights three dimensions of nature that point to God. The first is the fact that nature obeys laws. The second is [intelligent life] arose from matter. The third is the very existence of nature.

Antony Flew

If your view of the world is that people use reason for their important decisions, you are setting yourself up for a life of frustration and confusion.

Scott Adams

There is no great merit in any merely outward act; all depends upon the inward motive that provokes the deed.

Henry Steel Olcott

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Thomas Sowell

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

George Santayana

There seems little correlation between poverty and honesty. One would rather expect the opposite; dishonesty may not always pay but surely it sometimes does.

Milton Friedman

The name of God must never be used to support immoral acts.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying but they keep lying anyway, and we keep pretending to believe them.

Elena Gorokhova

News is what somebody does not want you to print. All the rest is advertising.

Unknown

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny and reinforces it.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.

Henry Ford

Although it has been said that every generation grows wiser and wiser, yet we have no reason to think they grow better and better.

Anonymous

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It is both irrational and counterproductive to fight evil by disarming good.

Scott Bradford

To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.

P.J. O’Rourke

American young people have got to understand from an early age that the world pays off on results, not on effort. Not everyone should win a prize no matter where he or she finishes.

Thomas Friedman

As a nation, our first duty must be those who are already our inhabitants, whether native or immigrants.

Calvin Coolidge

God grants to evil and to evildoers a large measure of freedom—too large, we might think. Even so, history does not slip through his fingers.

Benedict XVI

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