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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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Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

John F. Kennedy

For me, the worst thing about having King Kong walk down your street is that kids could look up and see the giant genitalia.

Jack Handey

The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains. Therein lies the profound difference between the individual and the whole.

Nikola Tesla

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy.

George Washington

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it kindles the great.

Roger de Rabutin

In general, if you were to design a country ideally suited to flourish in the world we are living in, it would look more like the United States than any other.

Thomas Friedman

The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security.

Hugo Black

Dare to know (Sapere Aude)! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

Immanuel Kant

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Fisher Ames

Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.

Marilyn vos Savant

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.

Ian Fleming

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

John Vianney

Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a country.

George Mason

Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.

Mignon McLaughlin

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Aristotle

Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and difficult as that.

Mignon McLaughlin

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

Will Rogers

[The First Amendment] requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary.

Hugo Black

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

John Adams

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