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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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As a rule, we can’t always tell the difference between the people who are far smarter than us and the people who are dumber. Both groups make choices we can’t understand.

A robber is free to ransack a house when the owners are away, but it is absurd to say that he loves the owners because he is free to steal. The purest liberty is that which is given, not that which is taken.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for ten or fifteen years.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it—so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Millennia passed before humankind discovered that energy is the basis of matter. It may take a few more years before we prove that wisdom and knowledge are the basis of, and can actually create, energy which in turn creates matter.

Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power.

If you hate your lot but wouldn’t trade it, it’s not your lot you hate.

Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening,

Men who don’t like girls with brains don’t like girls.

At its birth violence acts openly and even with pride[, but] it cannot continue to exist without descending into a fog of lies. . . .

The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds.

The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money.

Have nothing to do with stupid, senseless controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.

Let the wise man guard his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, very artful, and they rush wherever they list: thoughts well guarded bring happiness.

Let us not forget that unity is a symptom of life; disunion is decay, a sure sign of being a corpse.

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