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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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People enjoy helping when they can, it is part of human nature. But when people are forced to pay heavy taxes to finance entitlement programs, food stamps, and welfare, they hate it.

Paul Skousen

We keep on turning [the kaleidoscope of ideas] and making new combinations . . . ; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

Mark Twain

How do we bring about conversion of those living in blindness? By love. By truth in charity. By offering forgiveness. By offering mercy. With prayer.

Abby Johnson

There are worse things than losing an election; the worst thing is to lose one’s convictions and not tell the people the truth.

Adlai Stevenson II

The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.

Robert Anton Wilson

When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.

Mignon McLaughlin

The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

Alexander Hamilton

The time is always right to do what’s right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Regulate the mind, and then the body will spontaneously go right.

Siddhartha Gautama

All members of the human family [must] be respected and protected irrespective not only of race, sex, and ethnicity but also of age, size, location, stage of development, and condition of dependency. To exclude anyone from the law’s protection is to treat him unjustly.

Robert George

One of the grand fallacies of our time is that something beneficial should be subsidized.

Thomas Sowell

[My father] gave me a piece of advice that I have always remembered, namely, that, if I was not going to earn money, I must even things up by not spending it.

Teddy Roosevelt

No honest man becomes rich overnight; he has to wait for the reward of his labors.

Clement of Rome

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

John Updike

The best way to put the shortcomings of society, and, indeed, the whole of mankind, in their proper place is to joke about them.

Nicolas Chamfort

We have to choose our targets wisely, which is a problem, because we do not have a wise public or a wise government.

Scott Adams

I work until beer o’clock.

Stephen King

Union bosses talked about securing the ‘right to strike,’ but they didn’t mean the right to quit, which everybody already had.

Jim Powell

Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences.

John Wesley

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

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