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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 only thing new in the world is the history you don’t know.

Harry S. Truman

For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Paul the Apostle

If kings and peoples had only had their true interests in view ever since the beginning of the world, the name of war would scarcely be known among mankind.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Just as in syllogistic arguments, granted one absurdity, others must needs follow; so in moral matters, given one absurdity, others must follow too.

Thomas Aquinas

And as we are—the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.

Horace

Humans see the comprehensibility of the world as evidence of a comprehending creator.

Richard Swinburne

We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.

Teddy Roosevelt

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Augustine of Hippo

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny and reinforces it.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Natural endowment is far less consequential than the ability to use it productively, and that ability is an outcome of culture.

Ibn Warraq

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Émile Zola

We must not expect God to transform us without our bringing something to be transformed.

Fulton Sheen

Always obey your parents when they are present.

Mark Twain

We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.

Mark Twain

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I learned, I no longer know. What little I still know, I have guessed.

Nicolas Chamfort

Democracy loosens social ties, but it draws the ties of nature more tight; it brings kindred more closely together, whilst it places the various members of the community more widely apart.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The world is more threatened by those who tolerate and encourage evil than by the evildoers themselves.

Albert Einstein

There is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other ‘higher’ ideas . . . derive from that idea alone.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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