First 2004 Presidential Debate Available for Free in iTunes

Posted October 3, 2004, 1:53 p.m.

If you missed the debate on Thursday, be sure to download it for free from the iTunes Music Store (thanks to Audible.com and C-SPAN). Give it a listen so you’ll have a [slightly] better idea of what each candidate stands for in the foreign policy arena.

First 2004 Presidential Debate (iTunes link).

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

God is known by natural knowledge through the images of his effects.

When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you’ve got to have been looking for it.

It has long been thought to be a well founded position, that the purse and sword ought not to be placed in the same hands in a free government.

Suppose for instance, that the same body, which has the power of raising money by taxes, is also entrusted with the application of that money, they will very probably raise large sums, and apply them to their own private uses.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

But love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

When I see that the right and the means of absolute command are conferred on a people or upon a king, upon an aristocracy or a democracy, a monarchy or a republic, I recognize the germ of tyranny, and I journey onward to a land of more hopeful institutions.

According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or liberation to act on our desires—it is, rather, liberation from slavery to those desires, from slavery to self.

Why is it that thirty years after the greatest revolution in history, the Communists have not produced one single inspired work of the mind? What is our lack? . . . I asked at last: can it be God?

Without scarcity, there is no need to economize—and therefore no economics.

Where the citizen is sovereign and the official the servant . . . it is important that the sovereign—the people—should possess intelligence.

Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify.

[The] minimum wage [is] one of the most, if not the most, antiblack laws on the statute books.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.

Judging God by human political categories is like judging a great symphony on which stanza of ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’ it most resembles.

There is a kind of selective memory that afflicts men when they view the past. They see the good and overlook the evil.

To this end we ought to take every precaution to prevent legislators becoming mere office-men; choose them frequently, make them recallable, establish rotation among them, make them ineligible to offices, and give them as small a share as possible in the disposal of them.

Fighting Communism, Socialism, and the subversion of constitutional government is everybody’s job. And working for the expansion of freedom is everybody’s job.

My faith in the future rests squarely on the belief that man, if he doesn’t first destroy himself, will find new answers in the universe, new technologies, new disciplines, which will contribute to a vastly different and better world in the twenty-first century.

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