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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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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Calvin Coolidge

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Hannah Arendt

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.

Fred Allen

The Parthenon was not built as a ruin.

Salvador Dalí

Who will guard the guards themselves?

Juvenal

[Most arts] speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I observed . . . that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And . . . the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Benjamin Franklin

If one doesn’t respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

Ayn Rand

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

Ulysses S. Grant

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.

Hannah Arendt

When a man yields in matters of ideals, of honor, or of faith, that man is without ideals, without honor, and without faith.

Josemaría Escrivá

When [civilization] wants a library cataloged, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round.

G. K. Chesterton

We are neither entitled to be unselfish at someone else’s expense nor is there any merit in being unselfish if we have no choice.

Friedrich Hayek

The universe is not the result of chance, as some would want to make us believe. Contemplating it, we are invited to read something profound into it: the wisdom of the creator, the inexhaustible creativity of God.

Benedict XVI

Coherent patterns in human affairs are often the result of the interaction of numerous individuals, none of whom sought to achieve the resulting overall end.

Ronald Hamowy

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Edmund Burke

Men and women . . . are quite unequal, and it is only because they are unequal that they complement one another. Each has a superiority of function.

Fulton Sheen

Legally your researchers are free, but they are conditioned by the fashion of the day.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Books which fall short of greatness sometimes have a power to move us greatly, especially in childhood when we are least critical and most forgiving, for their very failures confess their humanity.

Whittaker Chambers

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