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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

‘Chance’ is nothing but an expression of human ignorance. We don’t know the reasons and causes and design of all things, because we are not God.

I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would that it were already kindled!

We must strive to reach that simplicity that lies beyond sophistication.

I had anger but never hate. Before the war, I was too busy studying to hate. After the war, I thought, What’s the use? To hate would be to reduce myself.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

Few institutions in our society are in a more unsatisfactory state than schools. Few generate more discontent or can do more to undermine our liberty.

In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.

Those who have governed, have been found in all ages ever active to enlarge their powers and abridge the public liberty.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

No honest man becomes rich overnight; he has to wait for the reward of his labors.

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

Whoever hates reproof walks in the steps of the sinner, but he that fears the Lord will repent in his heart.

As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.

Alongside the wisdom of true conservatism is the danger that the status quo might become corrupt and its corruption self-servingly exploited.

Names are not arbitrary labels. Names are meanings. We grow into our names, or we fail to grow into them; we live out our names, or we fail to live them out.

In the end there persists in every man, however he may deny it, a scrap of soul.

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