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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.

Quotes

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Thus while walking along the road one needs not to be thinking of the end at every step.

I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these instructions to you so that, if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth.

For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants of one another.

Forced compassion always short-circuits the human heart and destroys the integrity of true and loving charity.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.

If you don’t believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.

We need to safeguard property rights, pay our debts, and fulfill obligations freely incurred.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss [religion]. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

If all mankind needed was a teacher, man would long ago have been holy, for he has had teachers from the Indian sages up to this very hour.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

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

The whole history of the world shows that legislation will generally be both unwise and ineffective unless undertaken after calm enquiry and with sober self-restraint.

I would like to die on Mars; just not on impact.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

The nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

I cannot see how to refute the arguments for the subjectivity of ethical values, but I find myself incapable of believing that all that is wrong with wanton cruelty is that I don’t like it.