Life Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

Endorsement Statistics, 2004-2021

Posted February 14, 2022, 8:00 a.m.

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Posted April 1, 2020, 11:41 p.m.
Updated May 12, 2024, 10:15 p.m.

Making a Tailgate Handle Mount

Posted March 1, 2019, 9:00 a.m.

My 23andMe DNA Ancestry Results

Posted June 17, 2017, 8:19 p.m.

Tales from the 1977 Jeep Manual

Posted April 4, 2017, 10:58 p.m.

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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An automaton cannot arouse the public interest. A leader, a fighter, a dictator, can.

Edward Bernays

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

Thomas Sowell

I hold it to be sufficiently demonstrated that universal suffrage is by no means a guarantee of the wisdom of the popular choice, and that, whatever its advantages may be, this is not one of them.

Alexis de Tocqueville

When hereditary wealth, the privileges of rank, and the prerogatives of birth have ceased to be, and when every man derives his strength from himself alone, it becomes evident that the chief cause of disparity between the fortunes of men is the mind.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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

Jordan Peterson

A liberal is a conservative who hasn’t been mugged yet.

Frank Rizzo

The principal crime of the human race, the highest guilt charged upon the world, the whole procuring cause of judgment, is idolatry.

Tertullian

Marriage now tends to be viewed as a form of mere emotional satisfaction that can be constructed in any way or modified at will. But the indispensable contribution of marriage to society transcends the feelings and momentary needs of the couple.

Francis (Pope)

When you’re right, you don’t have to worry too much about stinging political defeats. All you have to do is sit back and let the winners enact their policies. If you’re really right, and they’re really wrong, their policies will fail.

Scott Bradford

The question is not what power the federal government ought to have, but what powers in fact have been given by the people. . . . The federal union is a government of delegated powers. It has only such as are expressly conferred upon it and such as are reasonably to be implied from those granted.

Owen Roberts

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

Mignon McLaughlin

Holiness is not a luxury of the few, it is a simple duty for each one of us. . . .

Teresa of Calcutta

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Holy Bible

Normally the man of great productive capacity who becomes rich by guiding the labor of many other men does so by enabling them to produce more than they could produce without his guidance; and both he and they share in the benefit, which comes also to the public at large.

Teddy Roosevelt

For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants of one another.

Paul the Apostle

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

Sydney J. Harris

Always go to other people’s funerals; otherwise they won’t go to yours.

Unknown

Ofttimes [sensationalists] are the martyrs, but often they’re not even right.

Maya Angelou

Conscience has rights because it has duties.

John Henry Newman

One of the most basic elements of western-style democracies is freedom of conscience, which is necessary for achieving true consent of the governed.

Ibn Warraq

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