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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 ballot box produces conformity without unanimity; the marketplace, unanimity without conformity.

Science doesn’t purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism. . . . It’s a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match.

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

‘Power comes out of the barrel of a gun!’ is an absurd rallying cry when the other side has all the guns.

Superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.

Indiscriminate inclusion or indiscriminate exclusion are equally unthinking.

You cannot be half a saint, you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.

Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year.

He must be a poor creature that does not often repeat himself.

International trade is not a zero-sum contest. Both sides must gain or it would make no sense to continue trading.

Although man has many points of resemblance with the brute creation, one characteristic is peculiar to himself—he improves. . . .

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.

There is no bigotry in treating genuinely different things differently.

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us—what convictions, what courage, what faith—win or lose.

If one man conquer in battle a thousand times a thousand men, and if another conquer himself, he is the greatest of conquerors.

It has been observed by an honorable gentleman, that a pure democracy, if it were practicable, would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position in politics is more false than this.

If you buy the story that everything terrible just happened on its own, with no personal responsibility on the part of the victim, you deny that person all agency. . . . In this manner, you strip him or her of all power.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

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