2013 Road Trip: Downtown Memphis

Posted May 18, 2013, 12:18 a.m.

We arrived in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, early Wednesday evening and spent some time walking around and seeing the sights. There was some sort of big festival happening on Beale Street with a lot of people and motorcycles. And of course, I had the obligatory ‘Walking in Memphis’ stuck in my head the whole time:

Melissa had an appointment at a local gallery/museum mid-day on Thursday, so we had a long drive Thursday afternoon all the way to Norman, Oklahoma, just south of Oklahoma City. Here are some of my photos from Memphis.

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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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and difficult as that.

There is no intrinsic conflict between science and religion.

The Bible teaches truth, not opinion. This is an important element of God’s word in a world where almost any ridiculous idea is respected, almost all opinions are given equal value, and objective, immutable truth is generally denied.

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.

If you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the precipitate.

One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.

Not even the most powerful propaganda machine in the world can change truth.

God has created me to do him some definite service. . . . I have a part in this great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught.

Churches . . . that are nothing more than a loosely bound assembly of individuals committed to finding their own ‘truth,’ are no longer the church in any meaningful sense, because there is no shared belief.

Speed. Quality. Price. Pick any two.

Arithmetic is not an opinion.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.

The passions are not evil but they are stupid. They need a teacher.

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