Iraq 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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Upon the whole, I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

Faith and reason are indeed interdependent. One of the great secrets of the universe is that reason leans on faith every bit as much as faith leans on reason.

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

Have republics in practice been less addicted to war than monarchies? Are not the former administered by MEN as well as the latter?

It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.

Don’t just do something. Stand there.

There is no great merit in any merely outward act; all depends upon the inward motive that provokes the deed.

Now action is properly ascribed, not to the instrument, but to the principal agent, as building is ascribed to the builder, not to his tools.

In most projects, the first system built is barely usable. It may be too slow, too big, awkward to use, or all three. There is no alternative but to start again, smarting but smarter, and build a redesigned version in which these problems are solved.

I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

Remind professional pacifists who have accepted the paralyzing peace propaganda of the Communists that the same Jesus who taught "love thy enemy" never advocated surrendering to him.

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.

Our characters are the result of our conduct.

Just exactly what happened in the twentieth century, anyway? How was it that so many tens of millions had to die, sacrificed to the new dogmas and ideologies? How was it that we discovered something worse, much worse, than the aristocracy and corrupt religious beliefs that communism and fascism sought so rationally to supplant?

I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.

You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him, and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and cleave to him.

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

Let me say this once more: God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.

If you want to become invaluable in a workplace—in any community—just do the useful things no one else is doing.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

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