Video Blog: So Near, and Yet So Far

Posted May 17, 2010, 10:37 p.m.

The curious paradox of modern life: technology has brought us closer together and, at the same time, makes it so you can’t even hear what’s happening right down the street.

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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.

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The lesson of all this was, of course, that because we’re a great nation, our challenges seem complex. It will always be this way. But as long as we remember our first principles and believe in ourselves, the future will always be ours.

For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

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

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

It would be a master stroke if those great Powers honestly bent on peace would form a League of Peace, not only to keep the peace among themselves, but to prevent, by force if necessary, its being broken by others.

Nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.

In the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.

Troubles grow by recounting them.

Don’t worry too much about what the world calls victories or defeats. How often the ‘victor’ ends up defeated!

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. Religion is much more . . . needed in democratic republics than in any others.

Do not pretend you are happy with something if you are not, and if a reasonable solution might, in principle, be negotiated. Have the damn fight.

Don’t judge a group by its worst 5 percent. If you do, you’re probably in the worst 5 percent of your own group.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.

On the whole, it is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

If you ‘don’t get anything out of church,’ you don’t understand the reason for going to church in the first place. We go to church to worship. Worship is not like entertainment: worship is not getting something but giving something.

Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

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