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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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Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Jesus Christ

If the anti-God forces of the world conquer, culture and civilization will disappear, and we will have to start all over again.

Fulton Sheen

Absolute, peremptory facts are bullies, and those who keep company with them are apt to get a bullying habit of mind.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

Nikola Tesla

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

Freeman Dyson

One thing I find helpful is growing old. It’s a slow process, but totally worth it compared to dying.

Scott Adams

Dwell on the past and you’ll lose an eye. Forget the past and you’ll lose both eyes.

Unknown

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That ‘all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people.’

Thomas Jefferson

For me, the worst thing about having King Kong walk down your street is that kids could look up and see the giant genitalia.

Jack Handey

Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the ‘wet streets cause rain’ stories. Paper’s full of them.

Michael Crichton

Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

The man who is right is a majority. We, who have God and conscience on our side, have a majority against the universe.

Frederick Douglass

The foundation of America is freedom, and the foundation of freedom is faith.

Mike Pence

Just exactly what happened in the twentieth century, anyway? How was it that so many tens of millions had to die, sacrificed to the new dogmas and ideologies? How was it that we discovered something worse, much worse, than the aristocracy and corrupt religious beliefs that communism and fascism sought so rationally to supplant?

Jordan Peterson

There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.

Charles L. Wright

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

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. . . .

Winston Churchill

The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity, and humanity.

John Adams

Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

Men whose only concern is other people’s opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste. . . .

Nicolas Chamfort

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