Marriage 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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Of all the symptoms of decay in our decadent civilization, subjectivism is the most disastrous of all. A mistake can possibly be discovered and amended if and only if truth exists and can be known and is loved and searched for.

There is no shortage of oppressors among the downtrodden, even if, given their lowly positions, many of them are only tyrannical wannabes.

Better a thousand times err on the side of over-readiness to fight, than to err on the side of tame submission to injury, or cold-blooded indifference to the misery of the oppressed.

A healthy republican government must rest upon individuals, not upon classes or sections.

There can never be a contradiction between faith and science because both originate in God. It is God who gives us both the light of reason and of faith.

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

The strange American ardor for passing laws, the insane belief in regulation and punishment, plays into the hands of the reformers, most of them quacks themselves. Their efforts, even when honest, seldom accomplish any appreciable good.

Even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as an honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

I know a man who has such a passion for proving that he will have no personal existence after death that he falls back on the position that he has no personal existence now.

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus [and] the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Christianity, which has declared that all men are equal in the sight of God, will not refuse to acknowledge that all citizens are equal in the eye of the law.

A confederacy of republics must be the establishment in America, or we must cease altogether to retain the republican form of government.

No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

The common good, therefore, is the end of civil government, and common consent, the foundation on which it is established.

Never expect the worst, but always be ready for it anyway.

Now, if no other work were commanded but chastity alone, we would all have enough to do with this one; so perilous and raging a vice is unchastity.

Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.

Some religions draw by force of arms; [Jesus Christ] would draw by force of love.

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

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