New York Trip: Day 1

Posted April 24, 2010, 12:15 a.m.

So, we are in New York, New York, safe and sound. Riding Amtrak was an interesting experience; in some ways it’s inferior to flying or driving, and in others it’s superior. I’ll write up some more details about it later.

There were some delays—we lost close to an hour for breakdowns and whatever—but we got here safe and relatively quickly. Here’s a bunch of photos:

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

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

Like Saturn, the revolution devours its children.

In the end there persists in every man, however he may deny it, a scrap of soul.

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

To this end we ought to take every precaution to prevent legislators becoming mere office-men; choose them frequently, make them recallable, establish rotation among them, make them ineligible to offices, and give them as small a share as possible in the disposal of them.

When [civilzation] wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round.

In a word, the true morality of Christianity is love. And love does admittedly run counter to self-seeking—it is an exodus out of oneself, and yet this is precisely the way in which man comes to himself.

But it is as foolish to reject the senses because they sometimes seem to deceive us as it is to reject mathematics because we sometimes make mistakes in our checkbooks.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

The question is not what power the federal government ought to have, but what powers in fact have been given by the people. . . . The federal union is a government of delegated powers. It has only such as are expressly conferred upon it and such as are reasonably to be implied from those granted.

Everything human must have in it both joy and sorrow; the only matter of interest is the manner in which the two things are balanced or divided.

The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains. Therein lies the profound difference between the individual and the whole.

However, it would be the height of irrationality to postulate innumerable universes just to explain the particular features of our universe, when we can do so by postulating just one additional entity: God.

Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations. . . .

I will maintain the utmost respect for human life from the time of its conception; even under threat, I will not use my medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

Objective does not mean ‘known by all’ or ‘believed by all.’ Even if everyone believes a lie, a lie is still a lie.

When the people are weak the state is strong; when the state is weak the people are strong.

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

But if there really be anything of the nature of progress, it must mean, above all things, the careful study and assumption of the whole of the past.

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