Off on a Tangent

Updated July 30, 2024

Off on a Tangent is the online repository for all things related to Scott Bradford: fiction and nonfiction writing, photos, videos, software, jokes, and more. It started in 1995 and is now at version 26.0. It is built with WordPress.

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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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The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.

William O. Douglas

If you’re using a biased instrument, it doesn’t matter how many measurements you take—you’re aiming at the wrong target.

Nate Silver

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens. . . .

Harry S. Truman

The political correctness that inhibits cultural comparisons may be as great a danger as secret police in the long run, effectively silencing any defense of the West.

Ibn Warraq

No free government under heaven, with a well disciplined militia, was ever yet subdued by mercenary troops.

Anonymous

Favoring action over inaction, even in the face of uncertainty, is generally a good approach to life.

Scott Adams

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.

Adlai Stevenson II

Reason alone is sufficient to recognize the inviolable value of each single human life. . . .

Francis (Pope)

An unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It appeared to me that there were two paths to truth, [science and faith,] and I decided to follow both of them.

Georges Lemaître

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.

Thomas Jefferson

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Thomas Jefferson

Every truth—if it really is truth—presents itself as universal, even if it is not the whole truth. If something is true, then it must be true for all people and at all times.

John Paul II

The strange American ardor for passing laws, the insane belief in regulation and punishment, plays into the hands of the reformers, most of them quacks themselves. Their efforts, even when honest, seldom accomplish any appreciable good.

H. L. Mencken

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.

H. L. Mencken

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Henry Ford

Let us be neither dogs that do not bark nor silent onlookers nor paid servants who run away before the wolf. Instead let us be careful shepherds watching over Christ’s flock.

Boniface of Crediton

We shall see hereafter that in America the real strength of the country is vested in the provincial far more than in the federal government.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven. . . .

Jesus Christ

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness still.

John the Apostle

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