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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 most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Erasmus

Two things form the bedrock of any open society—freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.

Salman Rushdie

A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.

Alexis de Tocqueville

We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment’s hesitation.

Teddy Roosevelt

The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane.

G. K. Chesterton

The key is in remembering that a model is a tool to help us understand the complexities of the universe, and never a substitute for the universe itself.

Nate Silver

Take it from me when I say a good sense of humor can compensate for a lot of other shortcomings in one’s looks and personality.

Scott Adams

This is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making a prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.

G. K. Chesterton

There are only two kinds of government programs—those that are ineffective and those that are counterproductive.

Thomas Sowell

I thought [being president] would be easier.

Donald Trump

Building from scratch isn’t too different from building from a kit, except that you have to make your own kit.

H. Ward Silver

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein

It is not by the consolidation or concentration, of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected.

Thomas Jefferson

Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of his country. No qualification of wealth, of birth, of religious faith, or of civil profession is permitted to fetter the judgement or disappoint the inclination of the people.

James Madison

The escape from tyranny is often followed not by Paradise, but by a sojourn in the desert, aimless, confused and deprived.

Jordan Peterson

If you happen to be a human being—and many of my readers are—you are wrong about all sorts of things more often than you admit, and more often than you remember.

Scott Adams

If we think it is impossible to love stupid, ugly, selfish, bothersome people, we are wrong, because there is one stupid, ugly, selfish, bothersome person that we do succeed in loving all the time: the one in the mirror.

Peter Kreeft

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the west today.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts.

Ayn Rand

Defending the West is made more difficult by the fact that so many Europeans harbor an extreme anti-Americanism. Many do not accept that the United States is a part of the same Western civilization, and that it stands or falls together with Europe in the face of a new totalitarian threat.

Ibn Warraq

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