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The Myth of the Mistake-Free War

Posted October 28, 2004, 1:08 p.m.

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.

Quotes

It’s the duty of everyone to defend religious freedom and promote it for all people.

Francis (Pope)

You will admit that it is impossible to please God and the world. That can never be.

John Vianney

By rejecting conscience, certain persons have made shipwreck of their faith. . . .

Paul the Apostle

In a free market, the money of ordinary people is just as good as the money of the rich—and in the aggregate, there is often more of it.

Thomas Sowell

Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?

Paul the Apostle

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!

Thomas Carlyle

War is like fishing with a golden net; the loss risked is always greater than the catch can be.

Unknown

It’s easier to donate a few thousands to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

Ayn Rand

Fortune favors the brave.

Terence

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Pio of Pietrelcina

Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.

P.J. O’Rourke

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

John Paul II

He has placed before you fire and water: stretch out your hand for whichever you wish.

Holy Bible

I am human, I consider nothing human alien to me.

Terence

Genesis and science are both correct. When one asks if six days or fifteen billion years passed before the appearance of humankind, the correct answer is ‘yes.’

Gerald Schroeder

The totalitarian states can do great things, but . . . they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle hanging on the wall of the working class flat or laborer’s cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

George Orwell

But let us never forget . . . beyond Europe’s borders, in a world where oppression and violence are very real, liberation is still a moral goal, and freedom and security still need defenders.

George W. Bush

Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act.

Aristotle

At the Day of Judgment it will be demanded of us, . . . not how well we have spoken, but how holily we have lived.

Thomas à Kempis

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