Three Quotes by George Mason

This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax…

— George Mason

“To disarm the people--that was the best and most effective way to enslave them.”

— George Mason

I charge [my sons] never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to influence them to betray, nor the terrors of poverty…

— George Mason

That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or to seize…

— George Mason

Who are the militia, if they be not the people, of this country...? I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the…

— George Mason

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

— George Mason

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

— George Mason

We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.

— George Mason

I have been for some time in Retirement, and shall not probably return again to public Life; yet my Anxiety for my Country, in…

— George Mason

I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I cou'd expect Comfort.

— George Mason

That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public…

— George Mason

That the people have a right to uniform government; and, therefore, that no government separate from, or independent of the government of Virginia, ought…

— George Mason