Opinion » 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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Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Universal Dec. of Human Rights

Each woman virtually summons every man to show cause why he doth not love her.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

‘Thy will be done’ is the essential prayer of the saint; ‘my will be done’ is the essential demand of the sinner.

Peter Kreeft

The state does not create wealth; the state destroys it. The state can give you nothing because it produces nothing, and when it attempts it, it does so poorly.

Javier Milei

In so far as religion is gone, reason is going. For they are both of the same primary and authoritative kind. They are both methods of proof which cannot themselves be proved.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Isaac Asimov

It remains to me, as to so many who have thought about the matter, a source of extreme puzzlement that there should exist anything at all.

Richard Swinburne

He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains proves that he has no brains of his own!

Charles Spurgeon

Troubles grow by recounting them.

Elbert Hubbard

Economic transactions are not a zero-sum process, where one person loses whatever the other person gains.

Thomas Sowell

I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

William F. Buckley Jr.

The real world randomly conspired to murder humans all the time, and they just called it weather.

D. Scott Johnson

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Samuel Johnson

Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

Teddy Roosevelt

The gods have their own rules.

Ovid

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

You cannot have identity politics on the left . . . without calling up demons on the right.

Rod Dreher

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be: ‘meetings.’

Dave Barry

The practice of truth is the most profitable reading of it.

Charles Spurgeon

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