Musician's Aids Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

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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For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.

Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men.

Earnest among the thoughtless, awake among the sleepers, the wise man advances like a racer, leaving behind the hack.

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

We may amuse ourselves with names; but the fact is, men will be governed by the motives and temptations that surround their situation. Political evils to be guarded against are in the human character, and not in the name of patrician or plebeian.

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or a wrongdoer, or a mischief-maker; yet if one suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but under that name let him glorify God.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is living in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.

The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government—one that leaves the way wide open for people to favor, discuss, advocate, or incite causes and doctrines however obnoxious and antagonistic such views may be to the rest of us.

Just exactly what happened in the twentieth century, anyway? How was it that so many tens of millions had to die, sacrificed to the new dogmas and ideologies? How was it that we discovered something worse, much worse, than the aristocracy and corrupt religious beliefs that communism and fascism sought so rationally to supplant?

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

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.

Predicting the future is a hopeless, thankless task, with ridicule to begin with and, all too often, scorn to end with.

Everything human must have in it both joy and sorrow; the only matter of interest is the manner in which the two things are balanced or divided.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!

Pregnancy involves three humans: A woman, a man[,] and a fetus. Any discussion that doesn’t take reality into account should be dismissed.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

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

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.

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