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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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Works of art which have scooped up the truth and presented it to us as a living force—they take hold of us, compel us, and nobody ever, not even in ages to come, will appear to refute them.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

Norman Thomas

O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the godless chatter and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge, for by professing it some have missed the mark as regards the faith.

Paul the Apostle

I will maintain the utmost respect for human life from the time of its conception; even under threat, I will not use my medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity.

World Medical Assn.

Those who want to work for moral reform in the world must seek the glory of God before all else. . . .

John Leonardi

God is known by natural knowledge through the images of his effects.

Thomas Aquinas

Violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If one doesn’t respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

Ayn Rand

It did . . . cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.

G.K. Chesterton

The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you.

C.S. Lewis

Hence, just as the musician accepts on authority the principles taught him by the mathematician, so sacred science is established on principles revealed by God.

Thomas Aquinas

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.

Mignon McLaughlin

The mystery of government is not how it works, but how to make it stop.

P.J. O’Rourke

[To write,] you simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed.

Red Smith

We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can’t scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.

Jack Handey

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

Edmund Burke

Those who are most prone to idealize the objectivity of scientists are people who know almost nothing about science, people for whom it has become a kind of religion, their hope of salvation.

Rupert Sheldrake

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

C.S. Lewis

All power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.

George Mason

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