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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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Genuine love has two essential elements: self-sacrifice and commitment. Perfect love is total self-sacrifice and complete commitment.

Evil is not something that can be condescended to, waved aside, or smiled away, for it is not merely an uninvited guest, but lies coiled . . . at home with good within ourselves. Evil can only be fought.

For that is what truth is: conformity of thought to reality.

Christianity doesn’t begin by telling people what they must do, but what God has done for them. Gift comes before duty.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.

We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.

There never was, there never will be, nor is there now, a man who is always blamed, or a man who is always praised.

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

Normally the man of great productive capacity who becomes rich by guiding the labor of many other men does so by enabling them to produce more than they could produce without his guidance; and both he and they share in the benefit, which comes also to the public at large.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

[History is] an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.

Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side.

On the other hand, if you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

The very idea of converting what was formerly a confederation to a consolidated government is totally subversive of every principle which has hitherto governed.

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

If the people are stupid, they can be easily governed.

[A conservative is] a statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a liberal, who wants to replace them with others.

Civilization is the result of a long social process which takes place in the same spot, and is handed down from one generation to another, each one profiting by the experience of the last.

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