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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.

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I believe it was Jung who developed the most surgically wicked of psychoanalytic dicta: if you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences and infer the motivation

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.

Wherefore, any good or evil, done to the member of a society, redounds on the whole society: thus, who hurts the hand, hurts the man.

No one man, therefore, or any class of men, have a right, by the law of nature, or of God, to assume or exercise authority over their fellows.

The one certain way to invite disaster is to be opulent, offensive, and unarmed.

Then they will deliver you up to tribulation, and put you to death; and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake. And then many will fall away, and betray one another, and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.

Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for edifying, as fits the occasion, that it may impart grace to those who hear.

The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

It is not by the consolidation or concentration, of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected.

The more laws and restrictions there are, the poorer people become.

The only time no ever means no in the absence of violence is when it is uttered by one civilized person to another.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

In the real world, in the everyday lives of billions of believers—not least of them scientists—faith and reason coexist without contradiction.

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.

Jesus’s acts of compassion and his call for others to do likewise were never to be done by compulsion, but voluntarily, by free-will choice.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

If the body of the people will not govern themselves, and govern themselves well too, the consequence is unavoidable . . . a few will, and must govern them.

It is surely better to be wronged than to do wrong.

[The] power of accurate observation . . . is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

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