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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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Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

George W. Bush

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

H. L. Mencken

For the spiritual power of a sacrament is like light in this way: . . . if it passes through the impure it is not defiled.

Augustine of Hippo

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The hunger strike is a purely moral weapon. It presupposes that the jailer has not entirely lost his conscience. Or that the jailer is afraid of public opinion.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We will only attain freedom if we learn to appreciate what is different, and muster the courage to discover what is fundamentally the same.

Thurgood Marshall

Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.

Bernard Shaw

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.

Salman Rushdie

If a mother can murder her own child in her own womb, what is left for you and for me to kill each other?

Teresa of Calcutta

According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation [not] from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or liberation to act on our desires . . . [but] liberation from slavery to those desires, from slavery to self.

Robert George

Corporations (and other associations) do not have liberty and property rights because they are ‘people,’ but because they are created, managed, and controlled by people.

Scott Bradford

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

I and my public understand each other very well. It does not hear what I say, and I don’t say what it wants to hear.

Karl Kraus

Creation [can’t] be fully grasped by physics, since scientists cannot go outside the cosmos to measure it. It is akin to a child trying to prove a final theory of how his house works when he is incapable of toddling outside its doors.

Stacy Trasancos

There is nothing better or more necessary than love.

John of the Cross

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Calvin Coolidge

If you’re not catching flak, you’re not over the target.

Unknown

But love, in the Christian sense, . . . is a state not of the feelings but of the will . . . which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

C. S. Lewis

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable, and life is more than a dream.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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