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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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You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

The compacts which are to embrace thirteen distinct States in a common bond of amity and union, must as necessarily be a compromise of as many dissimilar interests and inclinations. How can perfection spring from such materials?

Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. . . .

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil, in its worst state an intolerable one. . . .

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Democracy is a sort of laughing gas. It will not cure anything, perhaps, but it unquestionably stops the pain.

The more project management you do the less likely your project is to succeed.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.

Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government—one that leaves the way wide open for people to favor, discuss, advocate, or incite causes and doctrines however obnoxious and antagonistic such views may be to the rest of us.

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

Insanity is always a reasonable diagnosis when you’re dealing with writers and artists. Sometimes the only real difference between crazy people and artists is that artists write down what they imagine seeing.

There is . . . a close bond and necessary relation between . . . freedom and productive industry. This proposition is generally true of all nations, but especially of democratic nations.

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There’s far less competition.

Now anything the people demand that is right it is most clearly and most emphatically the duty of this Legislature to do; but we should never yield to what they demand if it is wrong.

The Bible is not a scientific textbook and should never be read as such; rather it reveals what God wants us to know for the sake of our salvation.

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