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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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Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

By rejecting conscience, certain persons have made shipwreck of their faith. . . .

There are some people who seem to want to ask favors from God as a right. A pretty kind of humility that is! He who knows us all does well in seldom giving things to such persons, He sees clearly that they are unable to drink of His chalice.

It is the idea that rejecting God . . . will somehow lead to freedom, to complete human fulfillment. As a result [he] is replaced by fleeting human idols which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.

When I hear somebody sigh that ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’

You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don’t already believe it.

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

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

I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work.

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

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual . . . but rather he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.

It has taken since time immemorial for us to organize ourselves . . . into the functional hierarchies that both specify our perceptions and actions, and define our interactions with the natural and social world. Profound gratitude for that gift is the only proper response.

A mother and father each bring something unique and irreplaceable to child-rearing that the other cannot.

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.

Truth isn’t some malleable thing that changes with the times. It is truth. There is an objective reality, and an objective morality, that can be discerned with faith and reason.

Next to hating their enemies, men are most inclined to flatter them.

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