Fiction » 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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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

Winston Churchill

It very frequently happens that a man does not undertake to direct the fortune of the state until he has discovered his incompetence to conduct his own affairs.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

G.K. Chesterton

Because it prescribes government of the people, liberal democracy can be only as strong as the people who live under it.

Rod Dreher

Now action is properly ascribed, not to the instrument, but to the principal agent, as building is ascribed to the builder, not to his tools.

Thomas Aquinas

No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main enemy forces.

Moltke the Elder

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Salvador Dalí

Christianity . . . divided the crime from the criminal. The criminal we must forgive unto seventy times seven. The crime we must not forgive at all.

G.K. Chesterton

‘Pull yourself together’ is seldom said to anyone who can.

Mignon McLaughlin

Free trade capitalism as an economic system is the only instrument we have to end hunger, poverty and extreme poverty across our planet.

Javier Milei

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.

Henry Ford

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

Blaise Pascal

I am not a member of any organized party—I am a Democrat!

Will Rogers

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

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Will Rogers

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

George Mason

If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.

Elie Wiesel

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The reader will undoubtedly have remarked the preamble of these enactments: in America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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