Fiction Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

Parking Vulture (writing as Tamera Finn)

Posted February 24, 2004, 2:26 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.

Quotes

Therefore do not seek to understand in order to believe, but believe in order to understand.

Augustine of Hippo

[The vote is] the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Ambrose Bierce

No Reformer believed in private interpretation of Scripture, but they had no clear way to discern whose interpretation was the correct one. [They] quickly discovered that casting off Rome’s authority solved one problem but created another.

Rod Dreher

Everybody calls me Mr. President. It’s true. It’s a funny thing.

Donald Trump

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

Blaise Pascal

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Thomas Jefferson

God has created me to do him some definite service. . . . I have a part in this great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught.

John Henry Newman

Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

Elbert Hubbard

Kids, the fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

Stephen King

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Universal Dec. of Human Rights

[Pure] democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

James Madison

The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone—until they do.

Mignon McLaughlin

Wine is like life to men, if you drink it in moderation. What is life to a man who is without wine? It has been created to make men glad.

Holy Bible

[The First Amendment] requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary.

Hugo Black

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I always go into the deal anticipating the worst. If you plan for the worst—if you can live with the worst—the good will always take care of itself.

Donald Trump

In the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

Hugo Black

One reason inflation is so destructive is because some people benefit greatly while other people suffer; society is divided into winners and losers.

Milton Friedman

If God had meant us to be nudists, we’d have been born without clothes.

Walt Willis

Let him admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper!—he will be beloved of the good, by the bad he will be hated.

Siddhartha Gautama

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