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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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Therefore the wise avoid extremes, excesses, and complacency.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Some acts are always wrong—that is, intrinsically evil—and may never be done, no matter what the intention or the circumstances.

Evil is not something that can be condescended to, waved aside, or smiled away, for it is not merely an uninvited guest, but lies coiled . . . at home with good within ourselves. Evil can only be fought.

Often the most convincing moralists are the very ones who feel the temptation to sin most strongly. . . . Very few, if any, great men or women are pure of heart, but inner torment and even a touch of wickedness can be catalysts to greatness.

This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Those who understand freedom as the radically arbitrary license to do just what they want and to have their own way are living in a lie, for by his very nature man is part of a shared existence and his freedom is shared freedom.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

We must hate sin because we love sinners. The more you love the patient, the more you hate the disease, whether ‘the patient’ is a body or a soul.

The nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none that does good.

When the people are weak the state is strong; when the state is weak the people are strong.

You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong—only because cruelty was pleasant or useful to him.

The more an owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who use it.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

God endowed every human being with freedom, and we are always free to choose unbelief. Such a choice is a sad use of freedom. It’s like a railroad train jumping the tracks in order to be free of them, and then being unable ever to move again.

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