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Liberty Quotes by George Mason
- No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and…
- That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of the people, trained…
- It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a church with which…
- 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,…
- 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;…
- The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
- I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
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