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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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Avowed resistance by arms, against usurpation and lawless violence, is not rebellion by the law of God or the land.

John Adams

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

Mignon McLaughlin

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Maya Angelou

[During the Revolutionary War,] our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do.

Donald Trump

Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.

Charles Spurgeon

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

C.S. Lewis

Let the nation try justice and the problem will be solved.

Frederick Douglass

It is by no means a good thing to be the oldest person at the frat party. It is desperation, masquerading as cool rebelliousness. . . .

Jordan Peterson

And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?

Thomas Jefferson

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

William O. Douglas

Favoring action over inaction, even in the face of uncertainty, is generally a good approach to life.

Scott Adams

A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.

Henry Ford

Encased in their provincialism and supported by Western intellectuals, Third World leaders blamed the West for the failures of their own cultures. Instead of asking themselves ‘What did we do wrong? How can we put it right?’ they asked ‘Who did that to us?’

Ibn Warraq

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom . . . [then] crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

Samuel Adams

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

Ignatius of Antioch

Believers can have a lot to do with the rise of atheism. If we are careless about our instruction in the faith, or present its teaching falsely, or fail in our religious, moral, or social life, we often conceal and distort the faith. . . .

Charles Pope

Should one point out that, from ancient times, decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

James the Just

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

Isaac Asimov

The cult of ugliness is a regression. It destroys our appetite, our love for our world.

Anaïs Nin

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