George Mason Quotes

“To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." -George Mason - Father of the Bill of…

— Mark Goodwin

“To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them..." -George Mason”

— George Mason

“George Mason’s economics department, meanwhile, became a hotbed of controversial theories that began to transform Americans’ tax bills, serving as an incubator…

— Jane Mayer

At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual…

— Tom G. Palmer

“But George Mason still had concerns; he reasoned that though Congress would have had to call up the militia and the army,…

— Brion T. McClanahan

“That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well-regulated militia composed of the Body of the…

— Mark Goodwin

“And shall we at last become the victims of our own abominable lust of gain? Forbid it, Heaven." Washington himself could be…

— Ron Chernow

“While these tax cuts starved the government, George Mason also belittled its role philosophically. A star on its faculty was James Buchanan,…

— Jane Mayer

“THE ADULT BRAIN, it turns out, is not just plastic but, as James Olds, a professor of neuroscience who directs the Krasnow…

— Nicholas Carr

“George Mason was the Kochs’ largest libertarian academic project but far from the only one. By 2015, according to an internal list,…

— Jane Mayer

“Lots of people wrote to the magazine to say that Marilyn vos Savant was wrong, even when she explained very carefully why…

— Mark Haddon

“Two centuries ago, the United States settled into a permanent political order, after fourteen years of violence and heated debate. Two centuries…

— Russell Kirk