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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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Always obey your parents when they are present.

Mark Twain

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

Gertrude Stein

Some people confess guilt to claim credit for the sin.

John von Neumann

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Gertrude Stein

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn vos Savant

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

John Paul II

Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.

Friedrich Hayek

In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

Aristotle

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Edmund Burke

If ye love wealth better than liberty . . . [then] crouch down and lick the hands which feed you . . . and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

Samuel Adams

To pardon a thief is to kill a good man.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Error is the price we pay for progress.

Alfred North Whitehead

If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Oscar Wilde

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Vegetius

Sensitiveness without impulse spells decadence, and impulse without sensitiveness spells brutality.

Alfred North Whitehead

The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.

Salman Rushdie

Property rights create self-monitoring, which tends to be both more effective and less costly than third-party monitoring.

Thomas Sowell

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