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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

The more you do for others, the more you have. The more you give to others, the greater your abundance.

Countries don’t compete directly with one another in economic terms. When Singapore or China gets richer, America does not become poorer.

Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death.

When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Exactly the same technology can be used for good and for evil. It is as if there were a God who said to us, ‘I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It’s up to you.’

Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.

The fact that I want to fly to Albuquerque does not constitute probable cause for an invasive search.

The first thing totalitarian leaders do is make sure their voices are the only ones left.

It’s disingenuous to call something a ‘right’ if you simultaneously demand that people take advantage of their ‘right’ whether they want to or not. That’s not a right, it’s a command. Republics have rights; tyrants have commands.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God; for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment?

We ought to be extremely cautious in this country. If ever the government be changed, it will probably be into a despotism.

The Bible teaches truth, not opinion. This is an important element of God’s word in a world where almost any ridiculous idea is respected, almost all opinions are given equal value, and objective, immutable truth is generally denied.

All good things arrive unto them that wait—and don’t die in the meantime.

Evil is not something that can be condescended to, waved aside, or smiled away, for it is not merely an uninvited guest, but lies coiled . . . at home with good within ourselves. Evil can only be fought.

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

Limited government is a key tenet of classic liberalism—the liberalism of people like Madison and Tocqueville—although today it is regarded as a conservative ideal.

Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him—thirsting, hungering, seeking!

Servitude cannot be complete if the press is free: the press is the chiefest democratic instrument of freedom.

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