Best George Mason Quotes
- I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city. Begin
- That no free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality,… Adherence
- Successfully reframing the climate debate in the United States from one based on environmental values to one based on health values...holds great promise to help… American
- All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity;… Acquiring
- The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. Bulwarks
- As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. Inspirational
- Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity… Abject
- I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials. Ask
- 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… Blessing
- We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it. Came
- In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in,… Agreement
- The poor despise labor when performed by slaves. Despise
- There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint. Especially
- I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable. Cold
- All men are by nature born equally free and independent. All
- Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the… All
- Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life… All