Corruption Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

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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So material a difference does it make, not what ills are suffered, but what kind of man suffers them. For, stirred up with the same movement, mud exhales a horrible stench, and ointment emits a fragrant odor.

If all mankind needed was a teacher, man would long ago have been holy, for he has had teachers from the Indian sages up to this very hour.

The politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked. . . .

The logic and rational explanation of a natural phenomenon—however comprehensive it may be—always makes an abstraction of that phenomenon.

Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.

No honest man becomes rich overnight; he has to wait for the reward of his labors.

For to answer objections made to a power given to a government, by saying it will never be exercised, is really admitting that the power ought not to be exercised, and therefore ought not to be granted.

Do not follow the evil law! Do not live on in thoughtlessness! Do not follow false doctrine! Be not a friend of the world.

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

I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs us on to do our best.

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

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

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

If you don’t believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.

I had anger but never hate. Before the war, I was too busy studying to hate. After the war, I thought, What’s the use? To hate would be to reduce myself.

The capital resources of the nation are not increased by using the tax collector rather than the stock market to mobilize them.

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.

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 the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons’ schools, the history of education would be very different.

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