This Board offers a huge array of opinions about a huge array of topics. Of course, guns and gay marriage seem to attract the most and the most ardent opinions.

The following is a quote from the letter which the Founding Fathers sent to the Confederation Congress in September, 1787 that accompanied their draft of what would become the US Constitution. It was composed by the five member Committee of Style, largely by Gouverneur Morris, Pennsylvania delegate:

"Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved;"