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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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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

Blaise Pascal

Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.’

Fulton Sheen

Independent nations have therefore a natural tendency to centralization, and confederations to dismemberment.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Bright people have the capability of freaking out faster and more dramatically than anyone else.

David Allen

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

Mignon McLaughlin

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Adlai Stevenson II

There is no such thing as a vacuum in human nature. As Christianity retreats, the evil things creep back.

Anonymous

It remains to me, as to so many who have thought about the matter, a source of extreme puzzlement that there should exist anything at all.

Richard Swinburne

Freedom is the alone un-originated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

Immanuel Kant

Corporations (and other associations) do not have liberty and property rights because they are ‘people,’ but because they are created, managed, and controlled by people.

Scott Bradford

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

Mark Twain

Creation comes before distribution—or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary.

Ayn Rand

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Thomas Jefferson

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.

Mahatma Gandhi

The compacts which are to embrace thirteen distinct States in a common bond of amity and union, must as necessarily be a compromise of as many dissimilar interests and inclinations. How can perfection spring from such materials?

Alexander Hamilton

The price system works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time. We never realize how well it functions until it is prevented from functioning. . . .

Milton Friedman

Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each [country]. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Universal Dec. of Human Rights

Beyond Europe’s borders, in a world where oppression and violence are very real, liberation is still a moral goal, and freedom and security still need defenders.

George W. Bush

I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone. . . . I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit.

William F. Buckley Jr.

Don’t be yourself, be someone a little nicer.

Mignon McLaughlin

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