Special Statements

Updated August 6, 2025

Off on a Tangent special statements express Scott Bradford’s standing public position on an organization, topic, or policy.

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The following special statements are currently in effect.

Special Statement on the National Rifle Association
- Adopted July 8, 2019
- Updated February 22, 2025

Special Statement on WordPress
- Adopted February 22, 2025

Special Statement on Planets and Moons
- Adopted August 8, 2025

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The following special statements have been rescinded and are no longer in effect.

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Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.

Douglas Adams

The said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience. . . .

Samuel Adams

The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.

Nicolas Chamfort

The successful man admits that there is more pleasure in work than in having secured the rewards of it. . . .

Thomas Oliver

Government can’t do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.

William F. Buckley Jr.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

Totalitarian regimes tend to emphasize state education, because they know that indoctrinating the children protects their positions of power.

Scott Bradford

Jesus has many lovers of his heavenly kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Thomas à Kempis

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth—anonymously and posthumously.

Thomas Sowell

Killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless the people have sense, spirit, and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded . . . against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many.

John Adams

I tell you, on the day of judgment men will render account for every careless word they utter; for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.

Jesus Christ

The great political problem in our modern democracy is how to induce our leaders to lead.

Edward Bernays

Arithmetic is not an opinion.

Unknown

Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate.

G. K. Chesterton

Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. . . . It is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I know words. I have the best words.

Donald Trump

Silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.

Samuel Johnson

The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.

Frederick Douglass

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

Fred Allen

Wherefore, any good or evil, done to the member of a society, redounds on the whole society: thus, who hurts the hand, hurts the man.

Thomas Aquinas

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