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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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I don’t believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

We ought to be extremely cautious in this country. If ever the government be changed, it will probably be into a despotism.

Why, you simple creatures, the weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

Do not pretend you are happy with something if you are not, and if a reasonable solution might, in principle, be negotiated. Have the damn fight.

It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.

And as midday passed, [the prophets of Ba’al] raved on until the time of the offering of the oblation, but there was no voice; no one answered, no one heeded.

The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power.

To believe in the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God would make men a race of bastards.

Diplomacy is utterly useless when there is no force behind it; the diplomat is the servant, not the master of the soldier.

You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong—only because cruelty was pleasant or useful to him.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

And he who lives a hundred years, ignorant and unrestrained, a life of one day is better if a man is wise and reflecting.

Neither can Creation be fully grasped by physics, since scientists cannot go outside the cosmos to measure it. It is akin to a child trying to prove a final theory of how his house works when he is incapable of toddling outside its doors.

The basic requirement for the understanding of the politics of change is to recognize the world as it is. We must work with it on its terms if we are to change it to the kind of world we would like it to be.

I die the king’s faithful servant, and God’s first.

The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.

I made a misstatement and I stand by all my misstatements.

No man chooses evil, because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

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