Great Falls

Posted September 18, 2008, 10:53 a.m.

I neglected to post this photo when I took it . . . uh . . . August 9. On my first off-read bike excursion after buying my Schwinn Mesa mountain bike, I took the Cross County Trail north from Georgetown Pike into Great Falls National Park. The trail terminates at the Potomac River where the Difficult Run creek meets the Potomac.

Needless to say, it is pretty incredible how much beatiful stuff there is within a short distance of Washington, DC. Even in urban Fairfax County, sights such as this can be found—if you know where to look.

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

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

History is written by the victors . . . except on Wikipedia haha.

Have you been calumniated, my friends? Have you been loaded with insults? Have you been wronged? So much the better! That is a good sign; do not worry; you are on the road that leads to Heaven.

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.

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.

Some religions draw by force of arms; [Jesus Christ] would draw by force of love.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

When charity for others is imposed by force, people are denied the benefits of carrying the entire responsibility of compassion on their own shoulders. In this they are robbed of one of life’s grandest and most gratifying experiences possible.

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.

While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the rights of conscience in others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to him only in this case they are answerable.

All economic transactions involve mutual accommodation and each transactor has to make the deal a net benefit to the other transactor, in order to have a deal at all.

Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.

The reader will undoubtedly have remarked the preamble of these enactments: in America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom.

One can shuffle inanimate objects around; one can compel individuals to be at certain places at certain times; but one can hardly compel individuals to put forward their best efforts.

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God; for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment?

We must see life in its true light. . . . It is an instant between two eternities. Let us suffer in peace!

State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them.

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