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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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One may say [that] the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Albert Einstein

A tax . . . signifies an exaction for the support of the Government. The word has never been thought to connote the expropriation of money from one group for the benefit of another.

Owen Roberts

Freedom spoils, and lack of freedom teaches.

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It was businessmen, devout religious leaders, and western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world.

Thomas Sowell

Building from scratch isn’t too different from building from a kit, except that you have to make your own kit.

H. Ward Silver

In recent years a false compassion has developed among some who hold that suffering is incompatible with human dignity. Clearly this is at odds with the Christian faith, which sees in suffering a redemptive and transformative dimension.

Charles Pope

Whosoever, therefore, comes and teaches you all these things that have been said before, receive him. But if the teacher himself turns and teaches another doctrine to the destruction of this, hear him not.

Catholic Church

It is not reasonable to say that a murder is automatically worse because it is motivated by racial or religious animus. . . . Murder is murder. All murders are hateful.

Scott Bradford

He who has begun is half done; dare to know; begin!

Horace

When hereditary wealth, the privileges of rank, and the prerogatives of birth have ceased to be, and when every man derives his strength from himself alone, it becomes evident that the chief cause of disparity between the fortunes of men is the mind.

Alexis de Tocqueville

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Fred Allen

I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

Steve Jobs

When schedule slippage is recognized, the natural (and traditional) response is to add manpower. Like dousing a fire with gasoline, this makes matters worse, much worse.

Fred Brooks

The way to win a culture war is to persuade the other side of the new taboo, not coerce the rest of us into obedience . . . through the courts, the state, or the threat of cancellation.

Eli Lake

We are witnessing, I think, a new American phenomenon. The two parties have become almost indistinguishable; and each is controlled by the establishment.

William O. Douglas

There are more things in heaven and earth . . . than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare

Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds. . . .

Holy Bible

The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Edgar Allan Poe

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

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