Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was a British-born American writer, political philosopher, and founding father. He is most well known for influential pamphlets supporting the American revolution, including Common Sense and The American Crisis.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil, in its worst state an intolerable one....

Common Sense

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

Some religions draw by force of arms; [Jesus Christ] would draw by force of love.

Fulton Sheen

The universe is not the result of chance, as some would want to make us believe. Contemplating it, we are invited to read something profound into it: the wisdom of the creator, the inexhaustible creativity of God.

Benedict XVI

If you do not object when the transgressions against your conscience are minor, why presume that you will not willfully participate when the transgressions get truly out of hand?

Jordan Peterson

Am I not here, I who am your mother?

Mary (Blessed Virgin)

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Winston Churchill

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

George Mason

If I didn’t know, from my own case, that I’m conscious, my knowledge of your neural processes would give me no reason to suspect that you are.

Lee Smolin

Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.

Flannery O’Connor

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness still.

John the Apostle

Unity in necessary things; liberty in doubtful things; charity in all things.

Marco Antonio de Dominis

Never explain: your friends don’t require it, and your enemies won’t believe you, anyway.

Elbert Hubbard

Accept whatever is brought upon you, and in changes that humble you be patient. For gold is tested in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation.

Holy Bible

The very idea of converting what was formerly a confederation to a consolidated government is totally subversive of every principle which has hitherto governed.

George Mason

I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.

Jesus Christ

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Mahatma Gandhi

The principal crime of the human race, the highest guilt charged upon the world, the whole procuring cause of judgment, is idolatry.

Tertullian

There are only two kinds of air-conditioning on planes—off and freezing.

Thomas Sowell

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

Paul the Apostle

If you happen to be a human being—and many of my readers are—you are wrong about all sorts of things more often than you admit, and more often than you remember.

Scott Adams

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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