War Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

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.

Quotes

Superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.

Not every one who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

The child’s right to life is inalienable and must never be violated. No amount of legal, political, medical, or philosophical argumentation can usurp the child’s rights or God’s sole sovereignty.

We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.

Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.

Only the most cynical, hopeless philosophy insists that reality could be improved through falsification.

Communist morals follow a simple formula. Anything which promotes the communist cause is good; anything which hinders it is bad.

Reason itself is a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

We have to view technology as what it always has been—a tool for the betterment of the human condition. We should neither worship at the altar of technology nor be frightened by it.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

But these two dramas—becoming a Christian and becoming a Catholic—are two steps in the same process and in the same direction, like being born and growing up.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual . . . but rather he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.

The passions are not evil but they are stupid. They need a teacher.

Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverent realism, says that they are all fools.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

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