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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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Nobody has the right to search (or disarm) a citizen in a public space.

Scott Bradford

But you can be certain, you want-to-be tyrants, that your slaves will take their revenge where they can, even if that means merely being much less than they could be.

Jordan Peterson

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.

Mark Twain

The goodness and compassion of the American people is a multiplier that simply cannot be measured.

Mia Love

The family, based on the marital commitment of husband and wife, is the original and best ministry of health, education, and welfare.

Robert George

You’ve got to be optimist to be a Democrat, and you’ve got to be a humorist to stay one.

Will Rogers

Nothing is easier than to falsify the past. Lifeless instruction will do it. If you rob it of vitality, stiffen it with pedantry, sophisticate it with argument, chill it with unsympathetic comment, you render it as dead as any academic exercise.

Woodrow Wilson

If we never suffer, we become spiritually stupid.

Peter Kreeft

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Abraham Lincoln

They say to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever know himself. Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

Gore Vidal

All my life, I’ve always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

Jane Wagner

All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.

Nikola Tesla

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

No other teacher in the world [but Jesus] ever said that it would take a violent death to clarify his teachings.

Fulton Sheen

All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law.

Universal Dec. of Human Rights

In laying down a political system it is safer to rely on principles than upon precedents, because the former are fixed and immutable, while the latter vary with men, places, times and circumstances.

Anonymous

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Universal Dec. of Human Rights

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

Friedrich Hayek

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. To be in the window and watch people being sent to concentration camps or being attacked in the street and do nothing, that’s being dead.

Elie Wiesel

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