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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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The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. . . .

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. On the lips of him who has understanding wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense.

But if we successfully reduce gun murders without reducing the overall murder rate, that’s not really success. The murder victim doesn’t care whether he was killed with a gun, knife, hammer, car, poison, anvil, or blow-dart. Neither should we.

When you’ve exhausted all possibilities, remember this: You haven’t!

In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.

When the people rules, it must be rendered happy, or it will overturn the State, and misery is apt to stimulate it to those excesses to which ambition rouses kings.

I believe there’s some explanation for this universe, which you might call God.

I know that there is nothing better for [men] than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; also that it is God’s gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.

You have to risk failure to move forward.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Normally, thought precedes word; it seeks and formulates the word. But praying the Psalms and liturgical prayer in general is exactly the other way round: The word, the voice, goes ahead of us, and our mind must adapt to it.

I believe it was Jung who developed the most surgically wicked of psychoanalytic dicta: if you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences and infer the motivation

On the whole, it is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

The more you do for others, the more you have. The more you give to others, the greater your abundance.

Earnest among the thoughtless, awake among the sleepers, the wise man advances like a racer, leaving behind the hack.

Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences.

There can be no peace between Christianity and the Sexual Revolution, because they are radically opposed.

For every one who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does what is true comes to the light, that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been wrought in God.

Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act.

‘Unmet needs’ are inherent . . . whether we have a capitalist, socialist, feudal, or other kind of economy. These [systems] are just different institutional ways of making trade-offs. . . .

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