U.S. Constitution

The Constitution of the United States is the nominal "supreme law of the land" of the United States. Its main seven articles came into effect in 1789, and it now includes twenty-seven amendments. The first ten amendments are the Bill of Rights.

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Second Amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof....

First Amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting...the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

First Amendment

Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press….

First Amendment

No person shall...be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Fifth Amendment

The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Ninth Amendment

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Tenth Amendment

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated....

Fourth Amendment

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.

Quotes

Let Republicans be mindful of their heritage. It was moral conviction—and the courage to act on moral conviction—that gave birth to the Republican Party and made it grand. Now it is old but need not be any less grand.

Robert George

He who loves God is the most deeply burdened with the sense of his own unworthiness.

Fulton Sheen

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable, and life is more than a dream.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Appearance too often takes the place of reality—the stamp of the coin is there, and the glitter of the gold, but, after all, it is but a worthless wash.

William Jennings Bryan

Take it from me when I say a good sense of humor can compensate for a lot of other shortcomings in one’s looks and personality.

Scott Adams

Everybody calls me Mr. President. It’s true. It’s a funny thing.

Donald Trump

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Carl Sagan

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.

Abraham Lincoln

You’ve got to be optimist to be a Democrat, and you’ve got to be a humorist to stay one.

Will Rogers

The greatest intellectual discovery of this generation is that the real cause of problems is solutions.

Eric Sevareid

One of the pressures on governments . . . is to ‘do something’—even when there is nothing they can do that is likely to make things better and much that they can do that will risk making things worse.

Thomas Sowell

It cannot be said often enough: Well-paying jobs don’t come from bailouts. They come from start-ups, which come from smart, creative, inspired risk takers.

Thomas Friedman

The ancient world did in fact experience the birth of Christianity as a liberation from the fear of demons that, in spite of skepticism and enlightenment, was all-pervasive at the time.

Benedict XVI

Every prophet who teaches the truth, but does not do what he teaches, is a false prophet.

Catholic Church

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

Instead of fostering assimilation and harmony, our schools are increasingly a source of the very fragmentation that they earlier did so much to prevent.

Milton Friedman

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.

James Madison

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Edmund Burke

Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.

Universal Dec. of Human Rights

The ballot box produces conformity without unanimity; the marketplace, unanimity without conformity.

Milton Friedman