Myrtle Beach Vacation Photos

Posted January 6, 2012, 11:50 p.m.

Been busy since we got back from our Myrtle Beach vacation. We had a great time, got to hang out with some of my family, ate way too much food, played mini-golf, went to the aquarium, and more. I didn’t spend a lot of time taking pictures, but I did grab some on the beach and when we went to the aquarium. Enjoy!

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

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

If you don’t believe in brick walls, you will still be injured when you run headlong into one.

Thy eyes beheld my unformed substance; in thy book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

If all mankind needed was a teacher, man would long ago have been holy, for he has had teachers from the Indian sages up to this very hour.

Because writing reflects thinking, if your thinking is obscure and convoluted your prose will be, too.

And, above all, don’t lie. Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell. It was the great and the small lies of the Nazi and Communist states that produced the deaths of millions of people.

Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there’s something bad about it.

Arithmetic is not an opinion.

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. Religion is much more . . . needed in democratic republics than in any others.

The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide with the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man.

I hold it to be sufficiently demonstrated that universal suffrage is by no means a guarantee of the wisdom of the popular choice, and that, whatever its advantages may be, this is not one of them.

[Free speech] may indeed best serve its high purposes when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger.

When I see that the right and the means of absolute command are conferred on a people or upon a king, upon an aristocracy or a democracy, a monarchy or a republic, I recognize the germ of tyranny, and I journey onward to a land of more hopeful institutions.

When I hear somebody sigh that ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.

It is the schizophrenia of a free society that we outwardly espouse faith in the people but inwardly have strong doubts whether the people can be trusted.

The politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked. . . .

Go to Top	`tt`
Go to Bottom	`tb`
Search	`ts`
Main Content	`tc`
Open Gallery (if present)	`tg`
Open Flagpole	`tf`
Keyboard Shortcuts	`tk`
Site Information	`ti`

Main Menu

X

Site Information

Keyboard Shortcuts