Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was a British writer, poet, playwright, essayist, and critic. He was described by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history."

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Quoted by James Boswell

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

The Rambler, March 24, 1750

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

I had anger but never hate. Before the war, I was too busy studying to hate. After the war, I thought, What’s the use? To hate would be to reduce myself.

Elie Wiesel

When schedule slippage is recognized, the natural (and traditional) response is to add manpower. Like dousing a fire with gasoline, this makes matters worse, much worse.

Fred Brooks

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Edmund Burke

Use a picture. It’s worth a thousand words.

Arthur Brisbane

The stories we can neither ignore nor forget are unforgettable [because] they speak to something we know, but do not know that we know.

Jordan Peterson

Our world rewards action over inaction, at least in the average sense . . . the person who doesn’t try anything at all is unlikely to succeed.

Scott Adams

Do not believe your brother, believe your own crooked eye.

Unknown

If you hate your lot but wouldn’t trade it, it’s not your lot you hate.

Mignon McLaughlin

I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic.

H. L. Mencken

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

John Henry Newman

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

U.S. Constitution

It may very well be that the Communists . . . are closer to [Christ] than those who see Him as a sentimentalist and a vague moral reformer.

Fulton Sheen

Parts of the far left have gone so far in the political circle that they are now all but indistinguishable from the extreme right.

Saul Alinsky

I used to be indecisive but now I’m not so sure.

Anonymous

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

Bertrand Russell

We have to view technology as what it always has been—a tool for the betterment of the human condition. We should neither worship at the altar of technology nor be frightened by it.

Nate Silver

The rabbit’s tail looks like it’s made of cotton because if the tail looked like it was made of polyester, everybody would assume that the rabbit was artificial.

Scott Bradford

The Church will . . . be intolerant about her creed, and be ready to die for it, for she fears not those who kill the body, but rather those who have the power to cast body and soul into hell.

Fulton Sheen

I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.

Donald Trump

A fish does not campaign against fisheries, it only tries to slip through the mesh.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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