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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.

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

As a general rule, it’s always smarter to criticize people who aren’t around.

Nearly all that a boy reads [in the papers] in his teens will be known before he is twenty to have been false in emphasis and interpretation, if not in fact as well, and most of it will have lost all importance.

Let not one sin after another, difficult to be conquered, overcome us; may it depart together with greed.

The stories we can neither ignore nor forget are unforgettable [because] they speak to something we know, but do not know that we know.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.

Great dangers always accompany great opportunities. The possibility of destruction is always implicit in the act of creation. Thus the greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

[The First Amendment] requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary.

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

A tax, in the general understanding of the term, and as used in the Constitution, signifies an exaction for the support of the Government. The word has never been thought to connote the expropriation of money from one group for the benefit of another.

He who lives looking for pleasures only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his food, idle, and weak (Mâra the tempter) will certainly overthrow him, as the wind throws down a weak tree.

We have to choose our targets wisely, which is a problem, because we do not have a wise public or a wise government.

Nothing subsisting is greater than the rational soul, except God.

There are more things in heaven and earth . . . than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

If you don’t believe in brick walls, you will still be injured when you run headlong into one.

A great empire contains the amities and animosities of a world within itself.

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.

We must not seek martyrdom, though we must endure it when it comes.

Everybody calls me Mr. President. It’s true. It’s a funny thing.

It is then a fallacy to flatter ourselves with the reflection that the barbarians are still far from us; for if there be some nations which allow civilization to be torn from their grasp, there are others who trample it themselves under their feet.