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Looping Back

Posted August 23, 2015, 7:08 p.m.

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

The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security.

Trying to manage from the top down, when the bottom is out of control, may be the least effective approach.

There can never be a contradiction between faith and science because both originate in God. It is God who gives us both the light of reason and of faith.

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

There can be only one true religion, because a thing cannot be false and true at the same time, and, therefore, all religions that contradict the teaching of the true Church must teach falsehood.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you’ll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

You‘ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.

Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.

I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.

An unjust law is no law at all.

Winning ain’t enough. The other guy has to know he lost.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

As evil men feel their guilt more in the presence of an innocent babe than in the companionship of those who are wicked like themselves, so he who loves God is the most deeply burdened with the sense of his own unworthiness.

Wine is like life to men, if you drink it in moderation. What is life to a man who is without wine? It has been created to make men glad.

There has never been a society or a nation without God. But history is cluttered with the wreckage of nations that became indifferent to God, and died.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

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Looping Back

Yeaaaahhhhh! (Howard Dean Yell)