Reading the Electoral Signs » 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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If you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far.

Stephen King

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.

Horace

The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them. They are inexorable, and God has willed them to be knowable, even in the absence of strong emotion or apparent miracles.

Scott Hahn

Once I conquer Finland, I’ll head south through the Baltics and on to Belarus. Soon, all the world will find me mildly amusing.

Conan O’Brien

Even unanimity of belief does not guarantee its correctness.

Robert George

I would like to die on Mars . . . just not on impact.

Elon Musk

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

John von Neumann

There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

John Maynard Keynes

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to want.

Holy Bible

Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, . . . for [God] makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Jesus Christ

The hunger strike is a purely moral weapon. It presupposes that the jailer has not entirely lost his conscience. Or that the jailer is afraid of public opinion.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. . . . Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.

Patrick Henry

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Laurence J. Peter

Should one point out that, from ancient times, decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

Sylvia Plath

The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.

James Burgh

This is the final victory of the censor: When people, even people who know they are routinely lied to, cease to be able to imagine what is really the case.

Salman Rushdie

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

Elbert Hubbard

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