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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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Civilization is the result of a long social process which takes place in the same spot, and is handed down from one generation to another, each one profiting by the experience of the last.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The more laws and restrictions there are, the poorer people become.

Lao Tsu

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important a function as recollecting.

William James

There are as many opinions as there are men; to each his own way.

Terence

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him.

Thomas Jefferson

Not even the most powerful propaganda machine in the world can change truth.

Maximilian Kolbe

I observed . . . that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And . . . the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Benjamin Franklin

If Catholicism predisposes the faithful to obedience, it certainly does not prepare them for inequality; but the contrary may be said of Protestantism, which generally tends to make men independent, more than to render them equal.

Alexis de Tocqueville

If printing money would end poverty, printing diplomas would end stupidity.

Javier Milei

My faith in the future rests squarely on the belief that man, if he doesn’t first destroy himself, will find new answers in the universe, new technologies, new disciplines, which will contribute to a vastly different and better world in the twenty-first century.

Barry Goldwater

When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.

Mignon McLaughlin

I hold it to be sufficiently demonstrated that universal suffrage is by no means a guarantee of the wisdom of the popular choice, and that, whatever its advantages may be, this is not one of them.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

In despotic states men know not how to act, because they are told nothing; in democratic nations they often act at random, because nothing is to be left untold.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It is . . . nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Albert Einstein

The consequences of an action do not increase its goodness or malice.

Thomas Aquinas

It is impossible to please God and the world. That can never be.

John Vianney

Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

John Adams

The senses do not err . . . not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.

Immanuel Kant

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