Random Photos

Posted March 20, 2015, 2:26 p.m.

As is often the case when I have these little ‘unplanned hiatuses’ on Off on a Tangent, I’ve been accumulating random photos that have just been aching to be posted. Many of them have seen the light of day on Facebook, but none have been featured here yet. Oh well.

So as I start to get back into a swing of things (especially now that the No-Nonsense Weather update is out the door) I took some time to go through and pick out some random photos for your enjoyment. More substantive posts are in-progress too, so stay tuned!

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 aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.

As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, wise people falter not amidst blame and praise.

The British parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people. That it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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.

The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely.

Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Do not return evil for evil or reviling for reviling; but on the contrary bless, for to this you have been called, that you may obtain a blessing.

I am dumbfounded at how little philosophical and metaphysical importance the human mind has attached to the vital subject of excrement.

Friendship is a reciprocal arrangement. You are not morally obliged to support someone who is making the world a worse place.

I still feel you should rock the boat. And if you’re not in it, you should turn it over. But not unthinkingly.

We should bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation—to make a point—than to further the cause of truth. The latter end is only pursued when it seems coincident with the former.

Almighty God would in no wise permit evil to exist in His works, unless He were so almighty and so good as to produce good even from evil.

Whenever men are unanimous on great public questions, whenever there is but one party, freedom ceases and despotism commences.

Authentic love is an act of the will that has two vital elements: self-sacrifice and commitment.

Conflict is the essential core of a free and open society. If one were to project the democratic way of life in the form of a musical score, its major theme would be the harmony of dissonance.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

The foundation of America is freedom, and the foundation of freedom is faith.

Each person’s private trouble cannot be solved by a social revolution, because revolutions are destabilizing and dangerous.

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