Music Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

Yeaaaahhhhh! (Howard Dean Yell)

Posted January 31, 2004, 12:27 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

It has been said that beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. It can also be said that hiccups are proof that God hates us and wants us to be angry.

I always go into the deal anticipating the worst. If you plan for the worst—if you can live with the worst—the good will always take care of itself.

Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

The consequences of an action do not increase its goodness or malice.

You have to risk failure to move forward.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The element of truth behind all this, which people are so ready to disavow, is that men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved . . . ; they are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness.

Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today’s intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders, and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world.

Like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children.

While the law may not draw classifications based upon mere thoughts, beliefs, or inclination, it can and routinely does distinguish between types of conduct.

I’d have no desire to penalize a man because he’s worth only fifteen dollars a week. But I’ll be damned if I can see why a man worth forty must be penalized—and penalized in favor of the one who’s less competent.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

We are not angels; that is why we should not be ‘spiritualists.’ We are also not animals; that is why we should not be materialists.

Making saints out of sinners was even greater than making something out of nothing. For nothingness put up no resistance to him, as we did. How much resistance? Look at a crucifix to see what he had to do to conquer that resistance.

We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment’s hesitation.

If you are wise, mingle these two elements: do not hope without despair, or despair without hope.

Now action is properly ascribed, not to the instrument, but to the principal agent, as building is ascribed to the builder, not to his tools.

There is no bigotry in treating genuinely different things differently.

Universal evidence unmistakably shows that the best results are always obtained in healthful commercial competition.

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