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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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One’s breeding shows itself nowhere more than in his religion.

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts.

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.’

Man, by making himself a god, discovers the painful agony that he is not God.

Wherever the poor direct public affairs and dispose of the national resources, it appears certain that, as they profit by the expenditure of the State, they are apt to augment that expenditure.

A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.

Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive.

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

Let me say this once more: God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.

I do not promise you happiness in this world, but in the next.

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.

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 way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Maturity is not a matter of age. You have matured when you are no longer concerned with showing how clever you are, and give your full attention to getting the job done right. Many never reach that stage, no matter how old they get.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

Indeed all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived.

It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.

When schedule slippage is recognized, the natural (and traditional) response is to add manpower. Like dousing a fire with gasoline, this makes matters worse, much worse.

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