Vegetius

Publius Vegetius Renatus (ca. A.D. 4th century) was a writer in the late Roman Empire. His two surviving works are the military organization and strategy guide De Re Militari and the veterinary medicine guide Digesta Artis Mulomedicinae.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

De Re Militari

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

My commandment is: Thou shall not stand idly by. . . . You must interfere. [This is] the motto of human rights.

Elie Wiesel

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

Thomas Sowell

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

I never gave anybody hell. I just told the truth and they think it’s hell.

Harry S. Truman

In democracies, the welfare state is the beginning, and the police state the end. The two merge sooner or later, in all experience, and for obvious reasons.

Melchior Palyi

[The] truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

Winston Churchill

For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind.

Jesus Christ

I had rather be a free citizen of the small republic of Massachusetts, than an oppressed subject of the great American empire.

Anonymous

There is an implicit but astonishing arrogance in the idea that all the apostles, all the church fathers[,] and all the millions of ordinary Christians were fundamentally mistaken about Christ for nineteen centuries, and only a few theologians, sitting at their desks, in a very different culture, nineteen centuries later, finally understood him.

Peter Kreeft

No man chooses evil, because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Science is not a monolithic body of doctrine. Science is a culture, constantly growing and changing.

Freeman Dyson

If you’re not catching flak, you’re not over the target.

Unknown

It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.

John Adams

The key is in remembering that a model is a tool to help us understand the complexities of the universe, and never a substitute for the universe itself.

Nate Silver

The more project management you do the less likely your project is to succeed.

Douglas Merrill

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home, or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Universal Dec. of Human Rights

Christian perfection has but one limit, that of having none.

Gregory of Nyssa

I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.

Frederick Douglass

I recommend that you improve your psychological bravery but say no to anything that has a strong chance of killing you.

Scott Adams

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