Our Constitution

John Adams, worried that “a division of the republic into two great parties … is to be dreaded as the great political evil.”

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” ― Ernest Hemingway

“Laws must be general, equal, and certain.” —F.A. Hayek

“Half a truth is always a great lie.” - Benjamin Franklin. Too many half truths throughout D.C. during this election cycle. The other half are flat out lies.

"If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize." Voltaire

“A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or perhaps both.” -Madison

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

"Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light." --Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart. 1799.

"Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it." --Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 1786.

“Nowhere in the Bill of Rights are the words "unless inconvenient" to be found.” A.E. Samaan

Govt and its powers should be “derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable proportion, or a favored class of it.”

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.Jefferson

Look well to the characters and qualifications of those you elect and raise to office and places of trust. W Paterson Signer of Constitution

Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote, that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society J Adams

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” Benjamin Franklin #DNCLeak #FreeMilo

The government can not give you anything that it has not already taken.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as we do when the baby gets hold of a hammer. – Will Rogers

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, ...endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. Nelson Mandela

“Proclaim Liberty throughout All the land unto All the Inhabitants Thereof.” Inscription on the Liberty Bell.