Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was the eighteenth U.S. President, a Republican, serving from 1869 to 1877. During the Civil War he served as Commanding General of the Union Army, leading the Union to victory over the Confederacy.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
Speech in London
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
First Inaugural Address
I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.
Around the World with General Grant
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
Personal Memoirs
Where the citizen is sovereign and the official the servant...it is important that the sovereign--the people--should possess intelligence.
September 29, 1875

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.