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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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There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

There can be only one true religion, because a thing cannot be false and true at the same time, and, therefore, all religions that contradict the teaching of the true Church must teach falsehood.

Follow the law of virtue; do not follow that of sin. The virtuous rest in bliss in this world and in the next.

He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the LORD.

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.

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

Brooks’s Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

I despise the public. That’s my only vindication.

I hold it to be sufficiently demonstrated that universal suffrage is by no means a guarantee of the wisdom of the popular choice, and that, whatever its advantages may be, this is not one of them.

Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity[,] or social justice is quite bewildering to anyone brought up on out traditional ethical concepts, while for the Christian who bases his life on the Bible, it merely confirms the fundamental wickedness of evil.

Who will guard the guards themselves?

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

My faith in the future rests squarely on the belief that man, if he doesn’t first destroy himself, will find new answers in the universe, new technologies, new disciplines, which will contribute to a vastly different and better world in the twenty-first century.

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.

Therefore the wise know themselves but make no show, have self-respect but are not arrogant.

You can get any job done through sheer force of will—and by knowing what you’re talking about.

Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That ‘all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people.’

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