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The State of the Union and the Democratic Response

Posted January 21, 2004, 4:18 p.m.

Religious Freedom? Not really!

Posted January 3, 2004, 1:51 p.m.

A Revolt Against Dirty Politics

Posted October 7, 2003, 1:43 p.m.

Sex Laws and Inconsistent Conservatives

Posted July 3, 2003, 1:34 p.m.

Thou Shalt Not Kill (Persuasive Speech/Paper)

Posted December 5, 1997, 12:23 p.m.

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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Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Jesus Christ

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

Ronald Reagan

To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.

P. J. O’Rourke

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Ernest Rutherford

This triangle of truisms, of father, mother[,] and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

G. K. Chesterton

Civilization is the result of a long social process which takes place in the same spot, and is handed down from one generation to another, each one profiting by the experience of the last.

Alexis de Tocqueville

God prefers a loving sinner to a loveless ‘saint.’ Love can be trained; pride cannot.

Fulton Sheen

Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, for you know that we who teach shall be judged with greater strictness.

James the Just

Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Douglas Adams

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Indiscreet speech may lead men into error and an imprudent silence may leave in error those who could have been taught.

Gregory the Great

Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this declaration can be fully realized.

Universal Dec. of Human Rights

No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

Seneca the Younger

A healthy republican government must rest upon individuals, not upon classes or sections.

Teddy Roosevelt

Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.

Edgar Allan Poe

So long as we have lots of warning, humans are astonishingly clever at solving problems, even enormous ones. So figure that into your predictions.

Scott Adams

[To write,] you simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed.

Red Smith

If all values are only subjective, so is the value of tolerance.

Peter Kreeft

The struggle against the sea is an act of physical combat, and there is no escape.

Alfred Lansing

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