Wilson, Obama, and the Fiscal Cliff

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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Some people think God is infinitely demanding. Some think he is infinitely forgiving. He is both.

Scott Bradford

[The First Amendment] requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary.

Hugo Black

Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who’ve never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt and general indifference, and they call it love.

Ayn Rand

Property rights create self-monitoring, which tends to be both more effective and less costly than third-party monitoring.

Thomas Sowell

Religion begins at the point where reason and knowledge are powerless and forever fail—the point at which man senses the mystery of his good and evil, his suffering and his destiny, as a soul in search of God.

Whittaker Chambers

Philosophy . . . is a science, and as such has no articles of faith. . . .

Arthur Schopenhauer

If ye love wealth better than liberty . . . [then] crouch down and lick the hands which feed you . . . and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

Samuel Adams

My discovery of the divine has been a pilgrimage of reason and not of faith.

Antony Flew

One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If the average American set fire to a five-dollar bill, it would be an even smaller percentage of his annual income. But everyone would consider him foolish for doing it.

Thomas Sowell

I had anger but never hate. Before the war, I was too busy studying to hate. After the war, I thought, What’s the use? To hate would be to reduce myself.

Elie Wiesel

God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom.

Whittaker Chambers

Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. . . . Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.

Patrick Henry

Maturity is . . . when you are no longer concerned with showing how clever you are, and give your full attention to getting the job done right. Many never reach that stage, no matter how old they get.

Thomas Sowell

We shall see hereafter that in America the real strength of the country is vested in the provincial far more than in the federal government.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Jesus Christ

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

When ignorance destroys culture, monsters will emerge.

Jordan Peterson

I really didn’t say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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

Siddhartha Gautama

Freud had a point. He was, after all, a genius. You can tell that because people still hate him.

Jordan Peterson

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Year: 2012