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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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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.

We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.

The Government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government.

We often hear that love, happiness or personal contentment constitute the means of a good marriage and reasons to redefine marriage, but these things are the fruits of marriage, not the nature of marriage.

Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.

Many would say later on, ‘We want religion, but no creeds.’ This is like saying we want healing, but no science of medicine; music, but no rules of music; history, but no documents.

The logic and rational explanation of a natural phenomenon—however comprehensive it may be—always makes an abstraction of that phenomenon.

Evil can be eradicated from the world at large only when it is eradicated from the hearts and lives of individual human beings. Only when there is virtue in souls can there be peace and happiness in society.

You are, on the one hand, the most complex thing in the entire universe, and on the other, someone who can’t even set the clock on your microwave.

Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year.

The restless busy nature of the world, this I declare is at the root of pain.

The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.

Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don’t let it leave until I extract that value.

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money.

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.

The more I see of the world, the more I am convinced that civilization is a blessing not sufficiently estimated by those who have not traced its progress . . .

There is no instance of any government being reduced to a confirmed tyranny without military oppression.

The Church does not derive from human will, from reflection, from man’s ability and organizational capacity . . . if that were so it would have become extinct a long time ago, like all human things.

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

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