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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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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

Countries don’t compete directly with one another in economic terms. When Singapore or China gets richer, America does not become poorer.

It is important to distinguish between ‘schooling’ and ‘education.’ Not all schooling is education nor all education, schooling.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Have republics in practice been less addicted to war than monarchies? Are not the former administered by MEN as well as the latter?

The escape from tyranny is often followed not by Paradise, but by a sojourn in the desert, aimless, confused and deprived.

The Son of God became a stumbling block when he humiliated Himself to the human level, taking on the form and habit of man. It is hard on the intelligentsia to believe that greatness can be so little.

In a word, the true morality of Christianity is love. And love does admittedly run counter to self-seeking—it is an exodus out of oneself, and yet this is precisely the way in which man comes to himself.

A good deed done with a bad motive benefits others, but not the doer.

Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me old, when I would never call him short and fat?

A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like the cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients of happiness.

Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves.

We are witnessing, I think, a new American phenomenon. The two parties have become almost indistinguishable; and each is controlled by the Establishment.

As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame.

Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner.

When you’ve exhausted all possibilities, remember this: You haven’t!

Christianity . . . divided the crime from the criminal. The criminal we must forgive unto seventy times seven. The crime we must not forgive at all.

Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

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.

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