Iraq Archives - 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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Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit ascends to contemplation of truth.

John Paul II

The only time no ever means no in the absence of violence is when it is uttered by one civilized person to another.

Jordan Peterson

Genesis and science are both correct. When one asks if six days or fifteen billion years passed before the appearance of humankind, the correct answer is ‘yes.’

Gerald Schroeder

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Hannah Arendt

The value of the poem is in . . . elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient.

Edgar Allan Poe

Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

Jesus Christ

If you’re using a biased instrument, it doesn’t matter how many measurements you take—you’re aiming at the wrong target.

Nate Silver

It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty and intelligence.

Teddy Roosevelt

Peace requires arrangements by which other people can prosper. It is our duty to contribute of our capital and our skill to that prosperity.

Calvin Coolidge

Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism.

Ludwig von Mises

Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there’s no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

Jack Handey

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

John of the Cross

But eventually I came to accept the truth: I am overweight. This is not my fault. My body, without consulting me, has been converting the food I eat into fat, as opposed to something I can actually use, such as toothpaste.

Dave Barry

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Martin Rees

If marriage is centrally an emotional union . . . it becomes much harder to show why the state should concern itself with marriage any more than with friendship. Why involve the state in what amounts to the legal regulation of tenderness?

Sherif Girgis

If a man’s thoughts are unsteady, if he does not know the true law, if his peace of mind is troubled, his knowledge will never be perfect.

Siddhartha Gautama

For myself, when I feel the hand of power lie heavy on my brow, I care but little to know who oppresses me; and I am not the more disposed to pass beneath the yoke, because it is held out to me by the arms of a million of men.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I think there is always a need in any struggle for sensationalists. They get the headlines, they get the ear of the public, they take the race horse chances.

Maya Angelou

The one certain way to invite disaster is to be opulent, offensive, and unarmed.

Teddy Roosevelt

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