Special Statements

Updated September 17, 2025

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

One standing statement describes the issue buttons that appear at the bottom of the website. Other statements are also collected on this page. Past statements that have been rescinded are archived for historic purposes.

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Current Statements

The following special statements are currently in effect. They are listed in order of adoption.

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

Rescinded Statements

The following special statements have been rescinded and are no longer in effect. They are listed in order of rescission.

(none so far)

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.

Quotes

Socialism is structured so that it will never achieve its stated goals. The reason is self-evident: Socialism is a self-perpetuating consumption of other people’s labors, and when those labors run out, the whole system collapses.

Paul Skousen

Love the sinner and hate the sin.

Augustine of Hippo

No legislative act . . . contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master. . . .

Alexander Hamilton

Wingsuits [are] the halfway point between parachute pants and parachutes.

Randall Munroe

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived.

Immanuel Kant

When ignorance destroys culture, monsters will emerge.

Jordan Peterson

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

Patrick Henry

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong—but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.

Robert A. Heinlein

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Jesus Christ

I believe that I’ve made good judgments in the past, and I think I’ve made good judgments in the future.

Dan Quayle

And as we are—the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

U.S. Constitution

One of the worst things you can do as an actor, I think, is to forget your lines, and then get so flustered you start stabbing the other actors.

Jack Handey

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Catholic Church

They say to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever know himself. Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

Gore Vidal

I . . . am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood.

John Brown

I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

Harry S. Truman

The world stands by balanced antagonisms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The excesses and atrocities of organized religion have no bearing whatsoever on the existence of God, just as the threat of nuclear proliferation has no bearing on the question of whether E = mc^2.

Roy Abraham Varghese

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