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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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Poets are almost always wrong about facts. That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth. . . .

William Faulkner

Genesis and science are both correct. When one asks if six days or fifteen billion years passed before the appearance of humankind, the correct answer is ‘yes.’

Gerald Schroeder

Justice is the constitution or fundamental law of the moral universe, the law of right, a rule of conduct for man in all his moral relations.

Theodore Parker

There is no instance of any government being reduced to a confirmed tyranny without military oppression.

Anonymous

The opinions of the supreme court, whatever they may be, will have the force of law; because there is no power provided in the constitution that can correct their errors, or control their adjudications.

Anonymous

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.

Elbert Hubbard

Not every one who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father. . . .

Jesus Christ

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Mahatma Gandhi

There’s no such thing as life without bloodshed.

Cormac McCarthy

Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each [country]. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Universal Dec. of Human Rights

The division of property has lessened the distance which separated the rich from the poor; but it would seem that the nearer they draw to each other, the greater is their mutual hatred. . . .

Alexis de Tocqueville

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

George Orwell

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Elbert Hubbard

Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit ascends to contemplation of truth.

John Paul II

The Constitution[‘s] . . . language is ‘we the people;’ not we the white people. Not even we the citizens, not we the privileged class, not we the high, not we the low, but we the people.

Frederick Douglass

People who live their lives selfishly and at the detriment of others are often the ones who complain loudest about how badly they think they’ve been mistreated.

Scott Bradford

As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame.

Elie Wiesel

Contemporary churches have made Christianity too easy, presenting it as a way around suffering instead of a way through it. The old myths know better.

Rod Dreher

The man who does not know thinks that he is great, that he has done this or that great thing; the wise man knows that only God is great, that all good work is done by God alone.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Oscar Wilde

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