Books Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

Heinlein, Robert A.—Job: A Comedy of Justice

Posted August 3, 2004, 2:21 p.m.

King, Stephen—The Stand (Complete & Uncut Edition)

Posted February 29, 2004, 2:20 p.m.

Heinlein, Robert A.—I Will Fear No Evil

Posted January 10, 2004, 2:18 p.m.

Clancy, Tom—The Hunt for Red October

Posted January 8, 2004, 2:16 p.m.

Adams, Douglas—The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Posted January 8, 2004, 2:16 p.m.

A Rhyming Analytical Contrast of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

Posted June 1, 2000, 7:07 p.m.

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

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Endure with Christ, suffer for him, if you wish to reign with him.

The safeguard of morality is religion, and morality is the best security of law and the surest pledge of freedom.

Conflict is the essential core of a free and open society. If one were to project the democratic way of life in the form of a musical score, its major theme would be the harmony of dissonance.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

A government, forever changing and changeable, is, indeed, in a state bordering upon anarchy and confusion.

Although man has many points of resemblance with the brute creation, one characteristic is peculiar to himself—he improves. . . .

How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning? Do you not seek a light, ye who are surrounded by darkness?

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.

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

Normally, thought precedes word; it seeks and formulates the word. But praying the Psalms and liturgical prayer in general is exactly the other way round: The word, the voice, goes ahead of us, and our mind must adapt to it.

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

If kings and peoples had only had their true interests in view ever since the beginning of the world, the name of war would scarcely be known among mankind.

When I say ‘follow your heart,’ it’s actually shorthand for ‘follow your heart unless your brain makes a reasonable objection.’

Men elected for several years, several hundred miles distant from their states, possessed of very extensive powers, and the means of paying themselves, will not, probably, be oppressed with a sense of dependence and responsibility.

Like Judaism, but unlike most other religions, Christianity is not mythical, in that it is based on events that took place not in a timeless realm but within human history itself.

It is not by the consolidation or concentration, of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected.

God endowed every human being with freedom, and we are always free to choose unbelief. Such a choice is a sad use of freedom. It’s like a railroad train jumping the tracks in order to be free of them, and then being unable ever to move again.

Human opinion can give only conflicting, contrary, and contradictory answers.

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Heinlein, Robert A.—Job: A Comedy of Justice

King, Stephen—The Stand (Complete & Uncut Edition)

Fleming, Ian—Dr. No

Shatner, William—Man O’ War

Orwell, George—1984

Heinlein, Robert A.—I Will Fear No Evil

Fleming, Ian—Casino Royale

Clancy, Tom—The Hunt for Red October

Adams, Douglas—The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Bradbury, Ray—Fahrenheit 451

A Rhyming Analytical Contrast of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

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