George Mason

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials. ↗

— George Mason

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A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings. ↗

— George Mason

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We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it. ↗

— George Mason

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In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people. ↗

— George Mason

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The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind. ↗

— George Mason

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The poor despise labor when performed by slaves. ↗

— George Mason

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There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint. ↗

— George Mason

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All men are by nature born equally free and independent. ↗

— George Mason

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As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. ↗

— George Mason

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Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing. ↗

— George Mason

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