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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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Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

It cannot be said often enough: Well-paying jobs don’t come from bailouts. They come from start-ups, which come from smart, creative, inspired risk takers.

While human government exists the tendency to abuse power will remain. This system, coming down from former generations crowned with the honors of age, is today and for the future our hope.

Well-makers lead the water wherever they like; fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood; good people fashion themselves.

The only problem with demolishing examples of Brutalist architecture is that there are other examples still standing.

We must reject the notion that demography is destiny, the pathetic and simplistic notion that skin pigmentation dictates voter behavior. We must treat all people as individuals rather than as members of special interest groups.

The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds.

It is the schizophrenia of a free society that we outwardly espouse faith in the people but inwardly have strong doubts whether the people can be trusted.

Limited government is a key tenet of classic liberalism—the liberalism of people like Madison and Tocqueville—although today it is regarded as a conservative ideal.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.

The holier and purer a life, the more it would attract malignity and hate.

Freedom engenders private animosities, but despotism gives birth to general indifference.

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

Have you been calumniated, my friends? Have you been loaded with insults? Have you been wronged? So much the better! That is a good sign; do not worry; you are on the road that leads to Heaven.

Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.

What’s weird about modern western society is millions of people pretend to not understand basic truths, because it has been implicitly accepted that ‘political correctness’ is more important than truth.

There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.

The child’s right to life is inalienable and must never be violated. No amount of legal, political, medical, or philosophical argumentation can usurp the child’s rights or God’s sole sovereignty.

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

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