Islam 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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As an explanation of the world, materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has just the quality of the madman’s argument; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

A great empire contains the amities and animosities of a world within itself.

The first thing totalitarian leaders do is make sure their voices are the only ones left.

For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love—this is an old rule.

Thus, the particular phraseology of the constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle . . . that a law repugnant to the constitution is void, and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.

Creation comes before distribution—or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary.

The government official is supposed to be our servant. [But when an IRS agent] is auditing your tax return, which one of you is the master and which the servant?

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

If you buy the story that everything terrible just happened on its own, with no personal responsibility on the part of the victim, you deny that person all agency. . . . In this manner, you strip him or her of all power.

Consequences are under the control of that all-wise and all-powerful being, whose providence conducts the affairs of all men. Our part is to act right, and we may then have confidence that the consequences will be favorable.

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.

Therefore the wise avoid extremes, excesses, and complacency.

God therefore neither wills evil to be done, nor wills it not to be done, but wills to permit evil to be done; and this is a good.

You will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.

[The vote is] the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

One source of atmospheric pollution is the carbon dioxide that we all exhale. We could stop that very simply. But the cost would clearly exceed the gain.

The French codes are often difficult of comprehension, but they can be read by every one; nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.

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