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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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My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden.

Mary (Blessed Virgin)

We often hear that love, happiness, or personal contentment constitute the means of a good marriage and reasons to redefine marriage, but these things are the fruits of marriage, not the nature of marriage.

Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg

If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons’ schools, the history of education would be very different.

C.S. Lewis

As much as I ever did, more than I ever did, I believe in liberalism. But there was a rosy time of innocence when I believed in liberals.

G.K. Chesterton

How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. . . . We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don’t know.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing. They then become capable of believing in anything.

Émile Cammaerts

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Elbert Hubbard

There is no logical path to these laws [of physics]; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.

Albert Einstein

The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams

We are a strange mixture of hate, fear, and gentleness; we are both violence and peace.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I am the Queen of Heaven, who prays for the conversion of sinners, and I wish you to do the same.

Mary (Blessed Virgin)

It is the difference between art and science. Art creates truth, science discovers truth. We discover giraffes but we create hobbits.

Peter Kreeft

He was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us—the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.

Hannah Arendt

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him.

Thomas Jefferson

In every organization there is a considerable accumulation of dead wood in the executive level.

Laurence J. Peter

The universe itself is a great autograph of the Almighty.

Theodore Parker

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Paul the Apostle

Pray, hope, and don’t worry. Worrying is pointless. God is merciful and he will hear your prayer.

Pio of Pietrelcina

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Patrick Henry

The difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is that the Democrats let the poor be corrupt, too.

Oscar Levant

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