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Posted May 1, 2018, 8:00 a.m.
Updated July 9, 2023, 7:34 p.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

Our lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.

It is the American example that deserves the most credit for the global spread of democratic politics and free-market economies. In this sense, too, the world of today is a world that we invented.

Fighting Communism, Socialism, and the subversion of constitutional government is everybody’s job. And working for the expansion of freedom is everybody’s job.

No one hates Buddha; he is dead. But hatred against [Christ] would live on, because he lives. . . .

The nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

I am unacquainted with [the Creator’s] designs, but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather mistrust my own capacity than His justice.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

The only time no ever means no in the absence of violence is when it is uttered by one civilized person to another.

A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties.

I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.

Platonists, Gnostics[,] and Hindus all believe that the soul is better without the body than with it. They are wrong. A human soul without a body is not a complete self . . .

The biggest scientific delusion of all is that science already knows the answers.

Property rights create self-monitoring, which tends to be both more effective and less costly than third-party monitoring.

Knowing ignorance is strength. Ignoring knowledge is sickness.

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

But no one shall be dragged to them by the hair, or kept from them by force, for I can drive no man to heaven with a club.

Have republics in practice been less addicted to war than monarchies? Are not the former administered by MEN as well as the latter?

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