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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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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.

Jack Handey

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln

How noble and good everyone could be if, at the end of each day, they were to review their own behavior and weigh up the rights and wrongs.

Anne Frank

Error necessitates sacrifice to correct it, and serious error necessitates serious sacrifice.

Jordan Peterson

Men whose only concern is other people’s opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste. . . .

Nicolas Chamfort

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

William Faulkner

But if there is anything that compelled me to write this book, it is to show that success is more a function of consistent common sense than of genius.

An Wang

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A submissive sheep is a find for a wolf.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You must practice simplicity and humility, for those are the virtues which achieve everything. You must say: ‘Fiat voluntas tua.’

Teresa of Ávila

Pregnancy involves three humans: A woman, a man, and a fetus. Any discussion that doesn’t take reality into account should be dismissed.

Alex Berezow

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

Oscar Levant

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

Ronald Reagan

Time . . . is the author of authors.

Francis Bacon

Many would say later on, ‘We want religion, but no creeds.’ This is like saying we want healing, but no science of medicine; music, but no rules of music; history, but no documents.

Fulton Sheen

We believe . . . the measure of every institution is whether it threatens or enhances the life and dignity of the human person.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

As a nation, our first duty must be those who are already our inhabitants, whether native or immigrants.

Calvin Coolidge

There is . . . a close bond and necessary relation between . . . freedom and productive industry. This proposition is generally true of all nations, but especially of democratic nations.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

Patrick Henry

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