Nonfiction Archives - Page 30 of 232 - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard

There seems little correlation between poverty and honesty. One would rather expect the opposite; dishonesty may not always pay but surely it sometimes does.

Milton Friedman

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.

William O. Douglas

Rigorously pursued, the logic of rejecting the conjugal conception of marriage thus leads, by way of formlessness, toward pointlessness: it proposes a policy for which it can hardly explain the benefit.

Sherif Girgis

Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. . . . Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.

Patrick Henry

Any civilization that denies free will is, generally, a civilization that is already disgusted with the choices of its freedom, because it has brought unhappiness upon itself.

Fulton Sheen

Governments . . . depend upon acquiescent public opinion for the success of their efforts and, in fact, government is government only by virtue of public acquiescence.

Edward Bernays

With the return of school I’ve gotten back into my stressed-out cycle. In this cycle I go back and forth between ‘OH MY GOD I HAVE A MILLION THINGS TO DO!’ and ‘Ah, screw it.’

Scott Bradford

In a more careful use of the terms, not all ‘schooling’ is ‘education,’ and not all ‘education’ is ‘schooling.’

Milton Friedman

Christian morality and God’s law are not arbitrary, but are specifically given to us for our happiness.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.

C. S. Lewis

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

William Faulkner

If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.

Jordan Peterson

As a rule, we can’t always tell the difference between the people who are far smarter than us and the people who are dumber. Both groups make choices we can’t understand.

Scott Adams

Whoever hates reproof walks in the steps of the sinner, but he that fears the Lord will repent in his heart.

Holy Bible

The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

Brooks’s Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Fred Brooks

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Paul the Apostle

To this end we ought to take every precaution to prevent legislators becoming mere office-men; choose them frequently, make them recallable, establish rotation among them, make them ineligible to offices, and give them as small a share as possible in the disposal of them.

Richard Henry Lee

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