Morning in Washington (Photos)

Posted October 16, 2010, 11:11 p.m.

Had a nice day today. We got up early to meet a friend of ours in Washington, D.C. to see the Nuremberg Laws at the National Archives. The laws were among the first anti-Semitic acts passed by the Nazis in Germany and, after the war, an original copy (with signatures of Adolf Hitler and other Nazi officials) was taken out of the country (illegally) by General George S. Patton. It was a little spooky to see them, given that they were among the first steps toward the senseless murder of six million people.

Unfortunately photography of Archive exhibits is prohibited, but I actually remembered to bring my Canon this time and took some photos before and after of the area around the Archives (including the Sculpture Garden). So, in return for you slogging through my terrible cell-phone pictures from Baltimore, here are some real photos of Washington, D.C.

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

Quotes

Democracy is a sort of laughing gas. It will not cure anything, perhaps, but it unquestionably stops the pain.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

All pagan religions begin with the teachings of adults, but Christianity begins with the birth of a child.

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

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

I find it hard, as a liberal, to see any justification for graduated taxation solely to redistribute income. This seems a clear case of using coercion to take from some in order to give to others and thus to conflict head-on with individual freedom.

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

Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice. . . .

Next to hating their enemies, men are most inclined to flatter them.

Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense.

With us the governing class is always saying to itself, ‘What laws shall we make?’ In a purely democratic state it would be always saying, ‘What laws can we obey?’

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

There is no instance of any government being reduced to a confirmed tyranny without military oppression.

Just exactly what happened in the twentieth century, anyway? How was it that so many tens of millions had to die, sacrificed to the new dogmas and ideologies? How was it that we discovered something worse, much worse, than the aristocracy and corrupt religious beliefs that communism and fascism sought so rationally to supplant?

If we think it is impossible to love stupid, ugly, selfish, bothersome people, we are wrong, because there is one stupid, ugly, selfish, bothersome person that we do succeed in loving all the time: the one in the mirror.

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