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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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Marriage is a socially arranged solution for the problem of getting people to stay together and care for children that the mere desire for children, and the sex that makes children possible, does not solve.

James Q. Wilson

Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest degree, but solely for the purpose of protecting ourselves.

Calvin Coolidge

People who understand economics can more easily spot hoaxes because money drives human behavior in predictable ways.

Scott Adams

Take a chance, won’t you? Knock down the fences, which divide. Tear apart the walls that imprison you. Reach out. Freedom lies just on the other side.

Thurgood Marshall

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau

The man who is right is a majority. We, who have God and conscience on our side, have a majority against the universe.

Frederick Douglass

I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.

Ulysses S. Grant

If you want to build a ship, then don’t drum up men to gather wood, give orders, and divide the work. Rather, teach them to yearn for the far and the endless sea.

Unknown

Economics is the only field in which two people can get a Nobel Prize for saying exactly the opposite thing.

Unknown

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Jesus Christ

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

The greatest intellectual discovery of this generation is that the real cause of problems is solutions.

Eric Sevareid

Nothing can, nothing will, justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.

Elie Wiesel

Those who want credit for good character foolishly believe that the best way to get it is to denounce others.

Fulton Sheen

But love, in the Christian sense, . . . is a state not of the feelings but of the will . . . which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

C. S. Lewis

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

Some of these rights are said to be unalienable, such as the rights of conscience. Yet even these have been often invaded, where they have not been carefully secured, by express and solemn bills and declarations in their favor.

Anonymous

After I die, wherever my spirit goes, I’m going to try to get back and visit my skeleton at least once a year, because, ‘Hey, old buddy, how’s it going?’

Jack Handey

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

It’s easier to part with a friend than an opinion.

Mignon McLaughlin

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