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

You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don’t already believe it.

Our lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.

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.

For my own part, I doubt whether man can ever support at the same time complete religious independence and entire public freedom. And I am inclined to think, that if faith be wanting in him, he must serve; and if he be free, he must believe.

Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.

At any rate, while I am in public life, however short a time it may be, I am in honor bound to act up to my beliefs and convictions.

Nothing is easier than to have good intentions but, without an understanding of how an economy works, good intentions can lead to counterproductive, or even disastrous, consequences for a whole nation.

The use of force is . . . at the very heart of the welfare state—a bad means that tends to corrupt the good ends.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.

Consequences are under the control of that all-wise and all-powerful being, whose providence conducts the affairs of all men. Our part is to act right, and we may then have confidence that the consequences will be favorable.

It remains to me, as to so many who have thought about the matter, a source of extreme puzzlement that there should exist anything at all.

The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity[,] or social justice is quite bewildering to anyone brought up on out traditional ethical concepts, while for the Christian who bases his life on the Bible, it merely confirms the fundamental wickedness of evil.

Violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds.

Murder is sometimes punished, free speech always.

More often than you’d think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

Our life consists not in the pursuit of material success but in the quest for worthy spiritual growth. Our entire earthly existence is but a transitional stage in the movement toward something higher. . . .

Some religions draw by force of arms; [Jesus Christ] would draw by force of love.

The stories we can neither ignore nor forget are unforgettable [because] they speak to something we know, but do not know that we know.

Whenever men are unanimous on great public questions, whenever there is but one party, freedom ceases and despotism commences.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead.

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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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