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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It remains to me, as to so many who have thought about the matter, a source of extreme puzzlement that there should exist anything at all.

Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

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

For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed; for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name.

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

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

[Human beings] know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal.

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

The revolution of the United States was the result of a mature and dignified taste for freedom, and not of a vague or ill-defined craving for independence.

Among us there is no place for the lukewarm. Humble yourself, and Christ will kindle in you again the fire of love.

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

Perfect souls are in no way repelled by trials, but rather desire them and pray for them and love them.

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

The people have spoken, and the politicians must learn to answer or understand. They will be made to understand that they are the servants of the rank and file of the plain citizens of the republic.

Platonists, Gnostics[,] and Hindus all believe that the soul is better without the body than with it. They are wrong. A human soul without a body is not a complete self . . .

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with it.

We should recognize how in a culture where each person wants to be bearer of his or her own subjective truth, it becomes difficult for citizens to devise a common plan which transcends individual gain and personal ambitions.

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