Primary Day in Virginia

Posted February 10, 2004, 4:07 p.m.

If you live in Virginia and consider yourself a Democrat, you should try to get out and vote in the primary today for your favorite among the candidates.

I won’t be voting today, because I don’t associate myself with the Democratic Party, but Senator John Kerry is probably going to be giving his victory speech from George Mason University tonight. If you watch the speech, keep an eye out for me (I might not be there though, because I have a class right then).

Participate in your government! Important stuff!

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

Quotes

For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed; for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name.

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

You know, Gina, Apple [Computer Inc.] is like a ship. That ship is loaded with treasure, but there’s a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

Thus many were shot—thousands at first, then hundreds of thousands. We divide, we multiply, we sigh, we curse. But still and all, these are just numbers. They overwhelm the mind and then are easily forgotten.

Since exact science derives its exactness from measurements, the application of quantities, it is limited to matter; and since science is limited to matter, it has no philosophical or religious implications whatsoever.

Politics allows people to vote for the impossible, which may be one reason why politicians are often more popular than economists . . .

The transient passions and the interests of an hour, or the chance of circumstances, may have created the external forms of independence; but the despotic tendency which has been repelled will, sooner or later, inevitably reappear on the surface.

There can be no peace between Christianity and the Sexual Revolution, because they are radically opposed.

There are no internal affairs left on our crowded Earth! . . . Mankind’s sole salvation lies in everyone making everything his business.

The pure, clean water of spiritual truth is placed in rusty containers, and the subsequent failings of the church down through the centuries should not be projected onto the faith itself, as if the water had been the problem.

A liberal is fundamentally fearful of concentrated power. His objective is to preserve the maximum degree of freedom for each individual separately that is compatible with one man’s freedom not interfering with other men’s freedom.

Parts of the far left have gone so far in the political circle that they are now all but indistinguishable from the extreme right.

The fault of others is easily perceived, but that of one’s self is difficult to perceive; a man winnows his neighbor’s faults like chaff, but his own fault he hides, as a cheat hides the bad die from the player.

I never had a master plan. I just got fed up one day and decided to do something about it.

The history of every human being passes through the threshold of a woman’s motherhood.

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