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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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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Karl Kraus

Intelligent deference to tradition and stability can evolve into intellectual sloth and moral fanaticism, as when conservatives simply decline to look up from dogma because the effort to raise their heads and reconsider is too great.

William F. Buckley Jr.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Will Rogers

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe that there are.

Ovid

If you can’t translate it into words a fisherman would understand, you don’t understand it yourself.

Peter Kreeft

The smallest minority on earth is the individual

Ayn Rand

You may encounter many defeats, but you just must never be defeated.

Maya Angelou

If the people are stupid, they can be easily governed.

Shang Yang

The essential prerequisite for building an expert system is to have an expert.

Fred Brooks

When we allow fundamental freedoms to be sacrificed in the name of real or perceived exigency, we invariably come to regret it.

Thurgood Marshall

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great. . . .

Jesus Christ

God has not forsaken me, and he never will.

Anne Frank

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

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

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Ovid

Christians are made, not born.

Tertullian

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

William O. Douglas

In the United States . . . all that [a man] asks of the state is not to be disturbed in his toil, and to be secure of his earnings.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right.

Theodore Parker

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and time again that they have the management skills of celery.

Dave Barry

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