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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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We are the only spirits that have bodies and the only animals that have spiritual souls. We are the lowest and stupidest angel and the highest and smartest animal, or rather, we are neither; we are ourselves.

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

I often say after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own hearts.

There is no logical path to these laws [of physics]; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.

He is no fool that gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Solid reasoned discourse, including philosophy and theology, does not need quantification from exact science to support it, since those discourses ought to be able to stand on their own merit.

The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice—that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favor of an individual.

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.

But [the power of the government to borrow money] certainly ought never to be exercised, but on the most urgent occasions, and then we should not borrow of foreigners if we could possibly avoid it.

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there’s something bad about it.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if the drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of the missing drop.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific, and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

Grammar does not make a man always speak correctly

I will maintain the utmost respect for human life from the time of its conception; even under threat, I will not use my medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity.

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

I was walking around one day trying to figure out what the meaning of life was. I figured it was something that would come to me easily while walking around, but I didn’t actually figure it out until I sat down.

Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth!

As natural inequality is very great, fortunes become unequal as soon as every man exerts all his faculties to get rich.

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