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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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Only the dead have seen the end of war.

George Santayana

Grammar does not make a man always speak correctly.

Thomas Aquinas

It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Anne Frank

There is no such thing as success in a bad business.

Elbert Hubbard

But in the countries in which the doctrine of the sovereignty of the people ostensibly prevails, the censorship of the press is not only dangerous, but it is absurd.

Alexis de Tocqueville

No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.

Isaac Asimov

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens. . . .

Harry S. Truman

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Patrick Henry

The demolition derby is . . . a form of gladiatorial combat for our times.

Tom Wolfe

It was communism that was evil, and the more truly a man acted in its spirit and interest, the more certainly he perpetuated evil.

Whittaker Chambers

Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for edifying, as fits the occasion, that it may impart grace to those who hear.

Paul the Apostle

The Constitution was designed to keep government off the backs of the people.

William O. Douglas

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

John Maynard Keynes

Thinkers are rare; doers are rarer; and thinker-doers are rarest.

Fred Brooks

State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them.

Hugo Black

[A republic] differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

Fisher Ames

Every time we kill a child through abortion we kill our potential. Every time we kill a child, we—all of us—suffer.

Mia Love

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.

Ian Kershaw

If all values are only subjective, so is the value of tolerance.

Peter Kreeft

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