Biking » Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

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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

To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it.

Charles Spurgeon

The word love is, perhaps, the most misunderstood common word in the English language because in the popular understanding it is defined by feelings and attraction. Authentic love, in contrast, is an act of the will.

Jimmy Seghers

God prefers a loving sinner to a loveless ‘saint.’ Love can be trained; pride cannot.

Fulton Sheen

But if there really be anything of the nature of progress, it must mean, above all things, the careful study and assumption of the whole of the past.

G. K. Chesterton

It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate.

William O. Douglas

Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may ultimately require intervention by some civilized Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America’s gift to the world, it is God’s gift to humanity.

Teddy Roosevelt

There are only two kinds of people who go into bankruptcy—those who don’t know how to handle money and those who know all too well.

Thomas Sowell

In all that follows I adopt the standpoint, therefore, that the inclination to aggression is an original, self-subsisting instinctual disposition in man, and I return to my view that it constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.

Sigmund Freud

Among us there is no place for the lukewarm. Humble yourself, and Christ will kindle in you again the fire of love.

Josemaría Escrivá

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

Mignon McLaughlin

The division of property has lessened the distance which separated the rich from the poor; but it would seem that the nearer they draw to each other, the greater is their mutual hatred. . . .

Alexis de Tocqueville

The tragedy in all of this is the simple fact that the average tax-paying American was not given an honest and genuine choice. The voter finds himself enduring one party long enough to witness a whole series of travesties and then switches to the other party thinking he will get a substantial reversal of policy. But he doesn’t.

W. Cleon Skousen

The common good, therefore, is the end of civil government, and common consent, the foundation on which it is established.

Unknown

Countries don’t compete directly with one another in economic terms. When Singapore or China gets richer, America does not become poorer.

Thomas Friedman

The illusion of objectivity makes scientists prone to deception and self-deception. It works against the noble ideal of seeking truth.

Rupert Sheldrake

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, [intelligence] is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Ambrose Bierce

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

Seneca the Younger

In the prevailing culture, priority is given to the outward, the immediate, the visible, the quick, the superficial, and the provisional. What is real gives way to appearances.

Francis (Pope)

No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.

Jane Wagner

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Edmund Burke

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