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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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But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath, but let your yes be yes and your no be no, that you may not fall under condemnation.

Man is unhappy because he doesn’t know he’s happy. It’s only that.

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.

It is through strife, or the readiness for strife, that a nation must win greatness.

If the opposition is silent, the totalitarian system becomes a monster that devours its own children. For this reason, it is an illusion to think that silence is the safest option, from whomever concerned.

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

Some people think God is infinitely demanding. Some think he is infinitely forgiving. He is both.

Everything human must have in it both joy and sorrow; the only matter of interest is the manner in which the two things are balanced or divided.

In the struggle with falsehood art always did win, and it always does win!

It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.

If you see news that is so absurd it is literally unbelievable, that’s usually because it isn’t true.

Reason itself is a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

So it does not matter (comparatively speaking) how often humanity fails to imitate its ideal; for then all its old failures are fruitful. But it does frightfully matter how often humanity changes its ideal; for then all its old failures are fruitless.

The sculptor works on marble, the painter on canvas, the machinist on matter, but none of them can create. They bring existing things into new combinations, but nothing else. Creation belongs to God alone.

The preservation of lawful authority, good order in society, the protection of others, and sometimes even the good of the guilty one himself, require that crimes be justly punished.

For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness. Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

It has always been the favorite maxim of princes, to divide the people, in order to govern them. It is now time that the people should avail themselves of the same maxim, and divide powers among their rulers, in order to prevent their abusing it.

Each person’s private trouble cannot be solved by a social revolution, because revolutions are destabilizing and dangerous.

Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin—a fact as practical as potatoes.

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