Intellectual Prop. 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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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.

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.

Freedom cannot be bestowed—it must be achieved.

I have come as light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.

Servitude cannot be complete if the press is free: the press is the chiefest democratic instrument of freedom.

Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main enemy forces.

If we did not have the freedom to say no to God, we could not truly love Him.

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or a wrongdoer, or a mischief-maker; yet if one suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but under that name let him glorify God.

One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If the average American set fire to a five-dollar bill, it would be an even smaller percentage of his annual income. But everyone would consider him foolish for doing it.

It is not just an accident that in our age inflation has become the accepted method of monetary management. Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism.

Man, by making himself a god, discovers the painful agony that he is not God.

God wishes to charge you with a mission. You will be contradicted, but do not fear; you will have the grace to do what is necessary.

The essential prerequisite for building an expert system is to have an expert.

Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.

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

The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

How silly to suppose that any man by his own efforts can ever save himself.

Better to be disliked than pitied.

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