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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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Not even the most powerful propaganda machine in the world can change truth.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men’s habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by inertia.

Tyranny is . . . not good for the tyrant—because he or she becomes a tyrant, and there is nothing ennobling about that.

I mean that groups of men are vacuums. Great big empty nothings. They say we can’t visualize a total nothing. Hell, sit at any committee meeting.

Because it prescribes government of the people, liberal democracy can be only as strong as the people who live under it.

Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.

Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There was far more courage to the square mile in the Middle Ages, when no king had a standing army, but every man had a bow or sword.

Organic life . . . has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.

I’d have no desire to penalize a man because he’s worth only fifteen dollars a week. But I’ll be damned if I can see why a man worth forty must be penalized—and penalized in favor of the one who’s less competent.

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.

[My father] gave me a piece of advice that I have always remembered, namely, that, if I was not going to earn money, I must even things up by not spending it.

In short, the scientific discourse, like any dominant discourse, has become the privileged instrument of opportunism, lies, deception, manipulation, and power.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

In democracies, the welfare state is the beginning, and the police state the end. The two merge sooner or later, in all experience, and for obvious reasons.

I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.

God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor.

But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

I pledge you that we will neither commit nor provoke aggression, that we shall neither flee nor invoke the threat of force, that we shall never negotiate out of fear, we shall never fear to negotiate.

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