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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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America seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force. . . . The higher state to which she seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

We cast no aspersions on any race or creed, but we must remember that every object of our institutions of society and government will fail unless America be kept American.

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

Liberty therefore can only subsist, where the powers of government are properly divided, and where the different jurisdictions are inviolably kept distinct and separate.

Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

We are not angels; that is why we should not be ‘spiritualists.’ We are also not animals; that is why we should not be materialists.

No Reformer believed in private interpretation of Scripture, but they had no clear way to discern whose interpretation was the correct one. [They] quickly discovered that casting off Rome’s authority solved one problem but created another.

Conversion is a matter of a moment. Sanctification is the work of a lifetime.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

The lesson of all this was, of course, that because we’re a great nation, our challenges seem complex. It will always be this way. But as long as we remember our first principles and believe in ourselves, the future will always be ours.

[Inflation is] a hidden tax that can be imposed without having been voted—taxation without representation.

Do you want to know why people are trapped in poverty in so many inner cities? The picture is complex, but undeniably a key element of it is the destruction of the family and the prevalence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies and fatherlessness.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

But if there is anything that compelled me to write this book, it is to show that success is more a function of consistent common sense than of genius.

War is horrible, but slavery is worse, and you may be sure that the British people would rather go down fighting than live in servitude.

If we want limited government, as we should, and a level of taxation that is not unduly burdensome, we need healthy institutions of civil society, beginning with a flourishing marriage culture that supports family formation and preservation.

[Man] can survive in only one of two ways—by the independent work of his own mind or as a parasite fed by the minds of others. The creator originates. The parasite borrows.

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