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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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Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.

John Basil Barnhill

As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.

John Paul II

It is one thing to disagree with an opposing viewpoint, but it is a far bigger problem if you have never heard it.

Scott Adams

What happened with slavery is now happening with embryo killing: the people who used to defend it as a ‘necessary evil’ . . . now promote it as a social good. . . .

Robert George

No legislative act . . . contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master. . . .

Alexander Hamilton

Religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence. . . .

George Mason

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

Hugo Black

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose; by any other name would smell as sweet.

William Shakespeare

Nothing . . . will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Samuel Johnson

But if there is anything that compelled me to write this book, it is to show that success is more a function of consistent common sense than of genius.

An Wang

I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

P.J. O’Rourke

My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.

William James

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

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

George Mason

I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church, for if faith is so important to our salvation I will seek it where true faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God himself.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

No one can have God for his father, who has not the Church for his mother.

Cyprian of Carthage

The gods have their own rules.

Ovid

[The Democrats now] defend every federal program as if each were sacred. They have become the most conservative force in American politics.

Thomas Friedman

Where the people are free there can be no great contrast or distinction among honest citizens in or out of office.

Anonymous

Creation of the universe from absolute and complete nothing marked the beginning of space, time, and matter. Theology has held that position for over three thousand years. Cosmology in the last decade or so has come to agree.

Gerald Schroeder

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