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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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Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

Patrick Henry

Let us therefore continue united in the cause of rational liberty. Let unity and liberty be our mark as well as our motto. For only such an union can secure our freedom; and division will inevitably destroy it.

Anonymous

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

Marilyn vos Savant

I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

Robert A. Heinlein

It is not by the consolidation or concentration, of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected.

Thomas Jefferson

It’s prohibited, you see. But as I make the laws here, I can also break them. With impunity. . . .

Aldous Huxley

The French codes are often difficult of comprehension, but they can be read by every one; nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Nothing . . . will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Samuel Johnson

For the Church remains our mother because Christ remains Christ, and she is not changed into a step-mother simply because of our evil rulers.

Martin Luther

Some of the sharpest men in argument are notoriously unsound in judgment.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Of all the symptoms of decay in our decadent civilization, subjectivism is the most disastrous of all. A mistake can possibly be discovered and amended if and only if truth exists and can be known and is loved and searched for.

Peter Kreeft

Those who call black black, and white white, are sentenced for intolerance. Only the grays live.

Fulton Sheen

In a free market, the money of ordinary people is just as good as the money of the rich—and in the aggregate, there is often more of it.

Thomas Sowell

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking.

Elon Musk

I was walking around one day trying to figure out what the meaning of life was. I figured it was something that would come to me easily while walking around, but I didn’t actually figure it out until I sat down.

Scott Bradford

Never expect the worst, but always be ready for it anyway.

Scott Bradford

No man can get rich in politics unless he’s a crook.

Harry S. Truman

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

Red Smith

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