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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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He must be a poor creature that does not often repeat himself.

He who says ‘I know him’ but disobeys his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?

You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove.

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

The object of a free and wise people should be so to balance parties, that from the weakness of all you may be governed by the moderation of the combined judgments of the whole, not tyrannized over by the blind passions of a few individuals.

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

I am a traditionalist. I have so many fabulous friends who happen to be gay, but I am a traditionalist.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

A free Press is the unsleeping guardian of every other right that freemen prize; it is the most dangerous foe of tyranny.

You must practice simplicity and humility, for those are the virtues which achieve everything. You must say: ‘Fiat voluntas tua.’

The more an owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who use it.

Since we have the obligation to obey our conscience, we also have the great responsibility to see that it is formed in a way that reflects the true moral good.

For generations, it was a paradox that the Chinese and the Indians prospered almost everywhere around the world, except in China and India.

Of all the symptoms of decay in our decadent civilization, subjectivism is the most disastrous of all. A mistake can possibly be discovered and amended if and only if truth exists and can be known and is loved and searched for.

You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong—only because cruelty was pleasant or useful to him.

But if the Supreme Court is ever composed of imprudent men or bad citizens, the Union may be plunged into anarchy or civil war.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it. . . .

There is no instance of any government being reduced to a confirmed tyranny without military oppression.

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