U.S. Office of Strategic Services

The U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a foreign intelligence service during World War II. After the war, it split into two agencies--the State Dept.'s Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Abstract verbalizations about personal liberty, freedom of the press, and so on, will not be convincing in most parts of the world. In many areas they will not even be comprehensible.

Simple Sabotage Field Manual

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

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James

For to answer objections made to a power given to a government, by saying it will never be exercised, is really admitting that the power ought not to be exercised, and therefore ought not to be granted.

Anonymous

But no one wept—no one. Hatred is dry-eyed

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Catholic Church

Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Universal Dec. of Human Rights

[Free speech] may indeed best serve its high purposes when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger.

William O. Douglas

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Carl Sagan

The quickest louse is first on the nit comb.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A mother and father each bring something unique and irreplaceable to child-rearing that the other cannot.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

I used to be indecisive but now I’m not so sure.

Anonymous

We are a nation that has a government—not the other way around.

Ronald Reagan

In its sharp protest against Catholicism, Protestantism [discarded] the mysterious, mythical, and mystical aspects of the faith. In that sense it has impoverished religion.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The capital resources of the nation are not increased by using the tax collector rather than the stock market to mobilize them.

Milton Friedman

Predicting the future is a hopeless, thankless task, with ridicule to begin with and, all too often, scorn to end with.

Isaac Asimov

One man, however little, must not be sacrificed to another, however great . . . [or] to a majority, or to all men.

Theodore Parker

If dogs could fly, nobody would go out without an umbrella.

Stephen King

Nothing is easier than to have good intentions but, without an understanding of how an economy works, good intentions can lead to counterproductive, or even disastrous, consequences. . . .

Thomas Sowell

In that moment, Aaron discovered confidence was mostly being sick of it all and running on two hours of sleep.

D. Scott Johnson

Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion.

Francis Bacon

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.

Adlai Stevenson II

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