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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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Throughout the history of anti-trust prosecutions, there has been an unresolved confusion between what is detrimental to competition and what is detrimental to competitors.

Thomas Sowell

There is an implicit but astonishing arrogance in the idea that all the apostles, all the church fathers[,] and all the millions of ordinary Christians were fundamentally mistaken about Christ for nineteen centuries, and only a few theologians, sitting at their desks, in a very different culture, nineteen centuries later, finally understood him.

Peter Kreeft

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

Unknown

Governments . . . depend upon acquiescent public opinion for the success of their efforts and, in fact, government is government only by virtue of public acquiescence.

Edward Bernays

Favoring action over inaction, even in the face of uncertainty, is generally a good approach to life.

Scott Adams

Everybody calls me Mr. President. It’s true. It’s a funny thing.

Donald Trump

Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better.

Teresa of Ávila

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Teddy Roosevelt

Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.

Mary (Blessed Virgin)

In the case of Socrates, [his] executioner wept over the executed, but here, it is the [Christ] who is to be executed who weeps over the executioners. Such is the difference between a philosopher and God.

Fulton Sheen

A good deed done with a bad motive benefits others, but not the doer.

Henry Steel Olcott

You can’t get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That’s all you need to know about communism.

P.J. O’Rourke

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never-relaxing crusade against skepticism and against dogmatism, against disbelief and against superstition, and the rallying cry in this crusade has always been, and always will be: ‘On to God!’

Max Planck

I don’t believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

Robert Anton Wilson

Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.

William F. Buckley Jr.

If you call a horse’s tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? The answer is four, because calling a horse’s tail a leg doesn’t make it one.

Unknown

In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

Freeman Dyson

The restless busy nature of the world, this I declare is at the root of pain.

Siddhartha Gautama

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Edmund Burke

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