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

Mike Pence

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

John Henry Newman

The ‘prudent’ have always called the works of God madness.

Josemaría Escrivá

Science is . . . a method of inquiry [that] says an assertion is valid—and merits universal acceptance—only if it can be independently verified.

Michael Crichton

I had anger but never hate. Before the war, I was too busy studying to hate. After the war, I thought, What’s the use? To hate would be to reduce myself.

Elie Wiesel

Should one point out that, from ancient times, decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: ‘Is it true in and for itself?’

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I speak in Latin to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

Unknown

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Aristotle

There are three important things to know about human beings. . . . Humans use pattern recognition to understand their world. Humans are very bad at pattern recognition. And they don’t know it.

Scott Adams

If the Constitution, intelligently and reasonably construed, stands in the way of desirable legislation, the blame must rest upon that instrument, and not upon the court for enforcing it according to its terms. The remedy in that situation—and the only true remedy—is to amend the Constitution.

George Sutherland

Have nothing to do with stupid, senseless controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.

Paul the Apostle

There is no bigotry in treating genuinely different things differently.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

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.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

Theodore Parker

To countenance abortion is not to respect women’s ‘privacy’ or liberty; it is to suppose that some people have the right to decide whether others will live or die.

Robert George

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Universal Dec. of Human Rights

Not the perversities of others, not their sins of commission or omission, but his own misdeeds and negligences should a sage take notice of.

Siddhartha Gautama

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Terence

At any rate, while I am in public life, however short a time it may be, I am in honor bound to act up to my beliefs and convictions.

Teddy Roosevelt

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