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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

I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

You cannot plumb the depths of the human heart, nor find out what a man is thinking; how do you expect to search out God, who made all these things, and find out his mind or comprehend his thought?

It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.

The [National Rifle] Association fills an important role in our national defense effort, and fosters in an active and meaningful fashion the spirit of the Minutemen.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada. None of us could prove them by pure logic as you prove a thing in mathematics. . . . A man who jibbed at authority in other things as some people do in religion would have to be content to know nothing all his life.

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

This makes altars and wombs the two most sacred places on earth, because there God repeatedly performs his two greatest miracles, transubstantiation and the creation of immortal souls.

The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.

Truth isn’t some malleable thing that changes with the times. It is truth. There is an objective reality, and an objective morality, that can be discerned with faith and reason.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

In the case of Socrates, [his] executioner wept over the executed, but here, it is the [Christ] who is to be executed who weeps over the executioners. Such is the difference between a philosopher and God.

Don’t just do something. Stand there.

Philosophy [is] a route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

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

Hardly any amount of oppression from above takes the heart out of a boy like oppression from his fellows.

When you’re right, you don’t have to worry too much about stinging political defeats. All you have to do is sit back and let the winners enact their policies. If you’re really right, and they’re really wrong, their policies will fail.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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