A Rhyme on Human Rights

Posted June 28, 2022, 12:30 p.m.

It has been said that history repeats itself. This is perhaps not quite correct; it merely rhymes.
Theodor Reik

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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.

Quotes

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That ‘all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people.’

Thomas Jefferson

A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

Hugo Black

The logic and rational explanation of a natural phenomenon—however comprehensive it may be—always makes an abstraction of that phenomenon.

Mattias Desmet

Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God.

Theodore Parker

The more base and corrupt a man, the more ready is he to charge crimes to others. Those who want credit for good character foolishly believe that the best way to get it is to denounce others.

Fulton Sheen

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Aristotle

The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

Abraham Lincoln

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Samuel Johnson

In short, the scientific discourse, like any dominant discourse, has become the privileged instrument of opportunism, lies, deception, manipulation, and power.

Mattias Desmet

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To speak in general terms, we may say that the Christian is to the world what the soul is to the body. As the soul is present in every part of the body, while remaining distinct from it, so Christians are found in all the cities of the world, but cannot be identified with the world.

Clement of Rome

The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight. . . .

Charles Spurgeon

It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.

Carl Sagan

Western values—the basis of the West’s self-evident economic, social, political, scientific, and cultural success—are clearly superior to any other set of values devised by mankind.

Ibn Warraq

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

U.S. Constitution

On the other hand . . . you have different fingers.

Jack Handey

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

Democracy loosens social ties, but it draws the ties of nature more tight; it brings kindred more closely together, whilst it places the various members of the community more widely apart.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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