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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

Because we are so scientific now—and so determinedly materialistic—it is very difficult for us even to understand that other ways of seeing can and do exist.

No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.

Now anything the people demand that is right it is most clearly and most emphatically the duty of this Legislature to do; but we should never yield to what they demand if it is wrong.

So I’m just sayin’ to BREATHE while you go along in this relationship, because if two people leave each other breathless too long somebody’s gonna lose consciousness.

I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

The present age men are not very ready to die in defense of their opinions, but they are rarely inclined to change them; . . . there are fewer martyrs as well as fewer apostates.

The rhetoric about ‘progressive’ and ‘regressive’ hardly deserves comment. Those who tell truth by the clock or the calendar are practicing chronological snobbery.

There are more things in heaven and earth . . . than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Middle-class values, of course, are represented by the Constitutional concepts of limited government, states rights, rights of property, a competitive economy, the solving of problems on the local level if possible and, in any event, with a minimal of government meddling.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

There are worse things than losing an election; the worst thing is to lose one’s convictions and not tell the people the truth.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.

We ought to be extremely cautious in this country. If ever the government be changed, it will probably be into a despotism.

If a man foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my ungrudging love; the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

Most laypersons are unaware that according to the classical laws of relativity and cosmology, there should be no solid matter in the entire universe. We and the Earth on which we rest and every star and galaxy in the universe are the result of an unlikely quirk of nature.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

I’m nauseatingly pro-American. It is where great things are possible.

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