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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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Enchantment always exists at the border between the real and the surreal. To be enchanted by a lover is to see her as both more than a mere person but also less than a goddess.

Rod Dreher

There’s no difference between a white snake and a black snake. They’ll both bite.

Thurgood Marshall

The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice—that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favor of an individual.

Sigmund Freud

The totalitarian states can do great things, but . . . they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle hanging on the wall of the working class flat or laborer’s cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

George Orwell

Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable?

Ayn Rand

Every truth—if it really is truth—presents itself as universal. . . . If something is true, then it must be true for all people and at all times.

John Paul II

As much as I ever did, more than I ever did, I believe in liberalism. But there was a rosy time of innocence when I believed in liberals.

G. K. Chesterton

In the prevailing culture, priority is given to the outward, the immediate, the visible, the quick, the superficial, and the provisional. What is real gives way to appearances.

Francis (Pope)

The people of these United States are the rightful masters of both Congresses and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Abraham Lincoln

Reason itself is a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

G. K. Chesterton

There’s no such thing as life without bloodshed.

Cormac McCarthy

This [whole] world . . . is the common country of all who live and breathe upon it.

Erasmus

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’s disingenuous to call something a ‘right’ if you simultaneously demand that people take advantage of their ‘right’ whether they want to or not. That’s not a right, it’s a command. Republics have rights; tyrants have commands.

Scott Bradford

By . . . false politeness, sincerity is sacrificed, and truth violated.

Mary Wollstonecraft

It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Anne Frank

The hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Jesus Christ

A journey of a thousand miles starts under one’s feet.

Lao Tsu

Books which fall short of greatness sometimes have a power to move us greatly, especially in childhood when we are least critical and most forgiving, for their very failures confess their humanity.

Whittaker Chambers

Normal is the average of deviance.

Rita Mae Brown

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