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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 Bible is not a scientific textbook and should never be read as such. . . .

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

Interest groups . . . are made up of people who willingly support those groups with their time and money. They aren’t some diabolical, nebulous enemy of our democracy; they ARE democracy.

Scott Bradford

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Albert Einstein

Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.

Jesus Christ

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

Bernard Shaw

It should be remembered that in the order of Divine Providence the man who puts one end of a chain around the ankle of his fellow man will find the other end around his own neck.

Frederick Douglass

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

Holy Bible

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

William F. Buckley Jr.

Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn’t happen yesterday won’t happen tomorrow.

Robert A. Heinlein

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Bernard Shaw

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

It is a fact . . . that the sale of small arms to gun enthusiasts or sportsmen produces a greater sense of moral outrage in western society than is produced by the sale to psychotic despots of weaponry capable of killing thousands.

Margaret Thatcher

I do not represent public opinion; I represent the public. There is a wide difference between the two. . . .

Teddy Roosevelt

It is at the very sources that one extracts pure doctrine.

Erasmus

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression . . . [including the] freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Universal Dec. of Human Rights

Brilliant minds often reject Christianity because they don’t want it to be true, because it is no longer fashionable[,] or because it commands obedience, repentance and humility.

Peter Kreeft

If one suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but under that name let him glorify God.

Peter the Apostle

Governments . . . depend upon acquiescent public opinion for the success of their efforts and, in fact, government is government only by virtue of public acquiescence.

Edward Bernays

The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.

Frederick Douglass

Silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.

Samuel Johnson

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