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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

To be human is to live suspended between danger and opportunity.

Of all the symptoms of decay in our decadent civilization, subjectivism is the most disastrous of all. A mistake can possibly be discovered and amended if and only if truth exists and can be known and is loved and searched for.

It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was going to fight in another fight, away from the first fight.

In practice, self-described ‘purists’ are often ill informed about what actually constitutes good usage.

When [civilzation] wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round.

On the whole, it is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary which divided good from evil is overthrown. . . .

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

I prefer the wrath of the world to the wrath of God; they can do no more than take my life.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

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.

To be punished is not an evil; but it is an evil to be made worthy of punishment.

No person shall . . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

If anybody ever says you’re ‘smart as a whip,’ remember this: whips are inanimate objects that do not possess any intelligence whatsoever.

Modernists have undermined faith far more effectively than atheists. The wolves in sheep’s clothing have carried away many more sheep than the honest wolves.

There is no bigotry in treating genuinely different things differently.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

All people serve their ambition. In that matter, there are no atheists. There are only people who know, and don’t know, what God they serve.

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