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Endorsement Statistics, 2004-2021

Posted February 14, 2022, 8:00 a.m.

Making a Tailgate Handle Mount

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Posted June 17, 2017, 8:19 p.m.

Tales from the 1977 Jeep Manual

Posted April 4, 2017, 10:58 p.m.

Cruise to New England and Canada 2016

Posted October 16, 2016, 9:52 a.m.

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

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

God reigneth. All is well.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

Our government is still clothed in the garb of a republic, but more and more our representatives behave as if they are the American sovereigns and are un-bound by any limits on their authority.

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice. . . .

‘Chance’ is nothing but an expression of human ignorance. We don’t know the reasons and causes and design of all things, because we are not God.

He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

Insanity is always a reasonable diagnosis when you’re dealing with writers and artists. Sometimes the only real difference between crazy people and artists is that artists write down what they imagine seeing.

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.

I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.

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.

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.

This Universe never did make sense; I suspect that it was built on government contract.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

The exception proves the rule in the cases not excepted.

For my own part, I doubt whether man can ever support at the same time complete religious independence and entire public freedom. And I am inclined to think, that if faith be wanting in him, he must serve; and if he be free, he must believe.

Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Do not return evil for evil or reviling for reviling; but on the contrary bless, for to this you have been called, that you may obtain a blessing.

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